A DRUGS dealer caught with four illegal shotguns was jailed for a
total of 17 years at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday.
Ronald Cormack, 38, a father of three, of The Square, Rosehearty,
Aberdeenshire, was found guilty of being concerned in the supplying of
ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and cannabis between April 1993 and December
last year.
The jury also convicted Cormack of assaulting Essex builder Mr
Dharamjit Sahota last May at Hillhead of Potterton, by repeatedly
kicking and punching him on the head and body, compressing his throat,
placing a pistol against his head, forcing a bullet into his mouth, and
threatening to kill him.
Cormack was further convicted of illegally possessing three sawn-off
shotguns, a pump-action shotgun, a stun gun, and 148 rounds of
ammunition of various calibres.
A charge alleging he possessed a sub-machine gun had earlier been
dropped by the Crown.
The jury's majority verdicts followed a trial lasting nearly four
weeks, during which Mr Sahota told how Cormack made him chew a bullet
after putting a gun into his mouth following a dispute over money
allegedly owed to a third party.
Jailing Cormack, Lord Marnoch told him: ''I am satisfied that you were
heavily involved in all the drugs specified.'' The Judge noted that the
firearms and ammunition involved had been ''numerous and dangerous''.
The Crown yesterday made a motion for a drugs profits investigation
hearing on Cormack. This was fixed for July 7.
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