By Alan McEwen
Edinburgh News
EDINBURGH — Drug dealers who smuggled cocaine and heroin into Saughton prison in the spines of books have been jailed following a joint operation by police and jail bosses.
Wayne Ernest Johnston, 39, and David Dunbar, 22, were caught after £16,500 of heroin and £1000 of cocaine was sneaked into the jail. Johnston was found guilty in the supply of heroin and cocaine and sentenced to two years and six months at the High Court in Edinburgh last week, while Dunbar was convicted of heroin supply and sentenced to two years.
Meanwhile, a third man was identified through the Prison Watch scheme for throwing packages containing drugs and mobile phones over the jail walls. Colin Valentine, 37, was spotted tossing packages over the walls on “numerous occasions” during last year. He also appeared at the High Court last week and was sentenced to 16 months.
Pc Tracey Gunn, prison link officer at Saughton, said: “These lengthy sentences are the result of an operation into an organised crime group linked to HMP Edinburgh. “Their conviction is testament to the joint work of police, the prison service and the Crown Office in tackling organised crime within prisons.”
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