Courier pleads guilty to throwing money out the window

A drugs courier tried to throw a suitcase containing £27,000 of cash out of his window as a police raid took place.

Andrew Patton had already thrown packets of heroin and cocaine with a street value of £9,000 from the house in Elmbank Terrace in Aberdeen.

Patton, 23, admitted being involved in the supply of the class-A drugs between September 20 and 24 in 2010, when he appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday.

He pled guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice by throwing the items.

Police raided the flat after receiving intelligence that illegal substances were being supplied from the home of a woman who later died from an overdose.

Hannah Messer