Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail

John McNeil, 56, was a passenger in Lindsey Sangster's vehicle which was stopped by police on the M74 in Glasgow on 22 April 2023. Bags of heroin and cocaine were later recovered by a police dog underneath the front passenger seat of the Volkswagen Golf. When quizzed about the animal - called Pablo - a sergeant claimed Sangster's partner McNeil told him she was a "trainee shepherdess." The duo were found guilty in September of possession of cocaine and diamorphine with intent to supply. John McNeil told jurors in his evidence that he was experienced with animals The pair claimed...