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UK: Former Rollers manager fined over drugs
The Press & Journal, Aberdeen
Tuesday 23 Jan 2007 FORMER Bay City Rollers manager Tarn Paton was fined 20,000 pounds yesterday for supplying cannabis - nearly four years after he committed the offence. The former music promoter was previously fined a record 200,000 pounds after he admitted supplying cannabis in 2003, but this was quashed on appeal to allow for confiscation proceedings and last month he was ordered .to hand over 180,000 pounds in crime profits. Yesterdays fine at the High Court in Edinburgh takes his total punishment to 200,000 pounds - the same as the original sentence handed down more than two-and-a-half years ago. Paton, 68, later said he was relieved that matters had come to an end and he even praised the justice system. "I'll certainly never get involved in anything like that again. Let it be a lesson to people. I think we've got a wonderful justice system. I'm just glad it's all over." His original sentence was handed down in April 2004, after he pleaded guilty to two charges of supplying cannabis and cannabis resin. It was accepted that Paton, who is thought to have a fortune of about 5million pounds, was not a dealer but bought the drugs for himself and men staying at his Edinburgh home. The 200,000 pounds fine handed down by temporary judge Roderick Macdonald QC was quashed by appeal judges so that the Crown could try to recover Paton's proceeds of crime, however. That was resolved in December when he agreed to hand over 180,000 pounds. In light of that confiscation order, the same judge, now known by the title Lord Uist, handed down a 20,000 pounds fine yesterday. During the brief hearing, Paton's defence counsel, Edward Targowski QC, said his client has a heart problem and has been told to prepare for surgery in the next two to three months. Paton led the Rollers-five young men from Edinburgh - to fame in the 1970s.
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