£5,000 confiscation order for drug dealer lawyer
Crown claim for over £50,000 cut down after vouching produced
A total of £5,000 has been confiscated from the lawyer convicted last year of drug dealing after smuggling heroin and diazepam into prison.
Angela Baillie is currently serving a 32-month sentence at Cornton Vale prison. The Crown Office had originally assessed the profits she had made from drug dealing at over £50,000, but Baillie was able to produce written evidence that £47,556 of the total had been legally earned at a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday.
Baillie admitted being concerned in the supply of drugs with a street value of £1,558 which were passed in a cigarette packet to a client during a visit to him in prison in October 2005. She was convicted in April 2006.
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