A lawyer has been jailed after being caught with 31kg of cannabis resin.
Gerard Nesbitt, an employment lawyer from Glasgow, had his flat raided by police last year. Over £150,000 worth of the drug was found under his bed, in a kitchen cupboard and in a filing cabinet. However Nesbitt claimed that he had allowed a homeless man (who he didn't know) to stay in his flat for a few weeks as a favour to a friend. And that the massive amount of hash must have belonged to him. And the dog ate my homework sir.
As the prosecutor said,"how ridiculous for a qualified solicitor to say: 'I let in a homeless man, gave him the keys, and if there was anything put in the house it was him not me". He said that if true this would have made Nesbitt "the unluckiest man in Glasgow".
Nesbitt held to his story regardless, and it took the jury just a few hours to convict him. Jailing him for three and a half years, Lord Burns said that he had "brought shame upon yourself and brought your profession into disrepute".
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Gerard Nesbitt, an employment lawyer from Glasgow, had his flat raided by police last year. Over £150,000 worth of the drug was found under his bed, in a kitchen cupboard and in a filing cabinet. However Nesbitt claimed that he had allowed a homeless man (who he didn't know) to stay in his flat for a few weeks as a favour to a friend. And that the massive amount of hash must have belonged to him. And the dog ate my homework sir.
As the prosecutor said,"how ridiculous for a qualified solicitor to say: 'I let in a homeless man, gave him the keys, and if there was anything put in the house it was him not me". He said that if true this would have made Nesbitt "the unluckiest man in Glasgow".
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Gerard Newsbitt relaxing outside court yesterday |
Nesbitt held to his story regardless, and it took the jury just a few hours to convict him. Jailing him for three and a half years, Lord Burns said that he had "brought shame upon yourself and brought your profession into disrepute".
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