Richard Compton was caught with £320,000 worth of the Class A

Richard Compton was caught with £320,000 worth of the Class A substance near the M74 motorway at Lesmahagow in October last year. He drove on the wrong side of the road and crossed a central reservation in a bid to escape a police patrol car. When officers finally stopped him his face was covered in white powder. At the High Court in Edinburgh, the former salesman from Livingston, West Lothian, admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine and amphetamine. The 41-year-old also admitted driving dangerously by driving at excessively slow speed, on the wrong side of the road, crossing a central reservation, weaving from lane to lane and narrowly avoiding collisions. He further pled guilty to driving while unfit through drink or drugs. The court heard that officers recovered two kilos of cocaine from the Honda Civic Compton he was driving. The Class A drug was found to be double the level of purity normally available in street deals. A further search at Crompton's home in Livingston found one and a quarter kilos of amphetamine in a fridge, worth £12,000.
Crompton told police he had been getting blocks of amphetamine and then packaging it into smaller amounts for another, whom he refused to name. He said he had driven to London from Livingston to pick up a package when he was stopped by police as he returned on 24 October last year. He was to be paid £1,000 for the journey but never got the cash after getting stopped. Judge Lord Bracadale told Crompton he would have jailed him for seven years for the crimes, but for his guilty pleas. He was also banned from driving and ordered to re-sit a test because of the motoring offences.