Kris Brown jailed over record £1.7m heroin haul

A former Hibernian youth footballer has been jailed for nine years after being caught with £1.7m worth of heroin.

Kris Brown, 29, was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow after previously being convicted of intent to supply the drug, as well as three other drugs offences.

The 17kg heroin haul was said to have been the largest seizure ever made by Lothian and Borders Police.

Brown had denied the charges but was unanimously convicted by a jury.

Police found pressed blocks of the Class A drug ready for distribution in a cupboard, with another full of 250g bags of heroin ready to be compressed in a mould in December 2010.

Brown was also convicted of being concerned in the supply of cocaine and mephedrone and of possessing cocaine.