AN OBAN man has been sentenced to six months in prison for dealing crack cocaine. James Hendry, 35, of 1 Hill Street, Oban, pleaded not guilty to a charge of supplying crack cocaine and a second charge of supplying diamorphine to a woman at the rear of Shuna Terrace, Soroba, on October 20, 2016.
PC Paul MacMillan, the first witness called by procurator fiscal Eoin McGinty, told Oban Sheriff Court on Wednesday March 29 that he was on plainclothes patrol with DC Alisdair Dewar at 9.30pm that night when he saw the woman waiting outside Shuna Terrace with a mobile telephone. Citing ‘significant intelligence’, PC MacMillan said:
‘We both formed the opinion she was in the area to source drugs.