A MAN caught with a haul of class A drugs during a raid in an upmarket area has been jailed for four and a half years.
John McAteer, 51, was held after cocaine and heroin was discovered at the property in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire in July 2015.
Police initially found mobile phones, cash, scales and knotted bags at the house where the 51-year old's partner lived.
McAteer, now of Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire, then told officers "items" were hidden in a pool table and a safe in a converted games room outside. Heroin was discovered before cocaine was found in a garden shed.
The consignments had a total value of just under £57,000.
McAteer had been due to plead guilty at a hearing last year, but the case was continued after it emerged his son had died in a car accident.
He eventually pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of the drugs last month at the High Court in Glasgow.
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