A Scots drug addict who claims he injects so much heroin that he's lucky to be alive has been jailed after being caught tooled up at a bus station.
Conor Chambers was found to be in possession of a blade in his home town of Kilmarnock earlier this year.
Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard that Chambers, 28, had the weapon on him at Kilmarnock Bus Station, in the town's Green Street, on August 24 this year.
Chambers was convicted previously and returned to the dock at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court today to learn his fate.
And Sheriff Alistair Watson was told that Chambers claims he takes so much of the deadly class A drug that he's lucky to be alive.
Defence solicitor Tony Boland explained: "He readily accepts your Lordship will have serious concerns in relation to this offence.
"This is a young man who could easily be dead by now.
"He tells me his doctor says the amount of heroin he is injecting is not something that is even seen in heroin addicts of 20 years.
"He very well knows the position he's placed himself in with his health and his addiction."
He asked the judge to consider placing Chambers on a Drug Treatment and Testing Order, which would see him spared punishment and instead be placed on a treatment programme to get him clean in a bid to stop his offending.
But the judge ruled there was only one way he could deal with Chambers, after pointing out he had been given community-based punishments in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Chambers was caged for 12 months, three months of which was due to the fact he was on bail at the time of the offence, and the sentence was backdated to August, when he was first remanded in custody.
