A teenager who set up an international drug-smuggling operation because he wanted to live a “glamorous” lifestyle was jailed for nearly four years yesterday.
Lewis Webster, now 22, planned to import and sell Ecstasy and was collecting drug packages worth about £20,000 a week.
He admitted illegally importing Ecstasy and being concerned in the supply of the drug in Arbroath and Montrose between December 2018 and October 2019.
The pills were imported by post and hidden inside packaging from a Dutch pram shop. But the package was intercepted at Heathrow Airport.
Jailing Webster, from Montrose, for 45 months, Sheriff Richard MacFarlane told him: “There is absolutely nothing glamorous about the world associated with controlled drugs.
“These substances are controlled for a reason. They are not good for consumers and far too regularly I see what happens to people whose lives are overcome by the consumption of these drugs. Lives are lost, life expectancy is invariably reduced and fatalities occur.
“You have been involved in controlled drugs from a young age and were first in court on
indictment at 16. You were involved in a significant amount of Class A drugs. They are a problem in this area and Scotland generally.”
