A Perth woman found with a football-sized lump of cannabis in her car has been ordered to complete 225 hours of unpaid work.
Mandy Kerr (53) was caught with the drug at Kinnoull Causeway in Perth after police followed her in connection with another matter.
Perth Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday this week officers moved to question her while she was stopped in a car park and spotted the lump sitting on the passenger side seat of her vehicle.
“She was the only person in the car,” fiscal depute Bill Kermode told the court.
Mr Kermode said the lump was about the size of a football and was confirmed to be cannabis.
“She was detained for a search,” Mr Kermode went on. “Nothing was found on her person.”
He said the constables did find £206.06 in cash in her car, however.
“She was then arrested,” Mr Kermode continued. “She confirmed ownership of the vehicle. She provided no comment to questions about the herbal substance.”
The fiscal depute said the lump was later valued to be worth around £2500.
He added Kerr later admitted to being in financial hardship and had got involved in selling cannabis to “settle debts”.
A solicitor representing Kerr confirmed on Wednesday she wished to plead guilty to being concerned in supplying the drug to another or others at Kinnoull Causeway on July 15, 2020.
He said Kerr had a habit of using cannabis at the time to cope with the effects of a break up and had only been selling amounts to a small group of friends.
He added she had almost always previously been in full time employment, had now stopped using cannabis and had recently been offered new full time work as a cleaner.
Sheriff Gillian Wade told Kerr: “It is clear you were in possession of cannabis to supply others - whether that be your friends or not it doesn’t matter.”
She sentenced Kerr, of Newhouse Place, Perth, to carry out 225 hours of unpaid work over a period of 12 months and ordered she be supervised by social workers over the same period.
