“I made a huge one for which I and my immediate family have paid heavily.'
A man who was jailed after being caught with a kilo of heroin in Shetland has been granted permission to sell alcohol from a Glasgow shop after expressing regret over his “mistake”.
Mr Ali, now 34, who is planning to take over his father’s convenience store in the city, applied for a personal licence – required by a member of staff to sell alcohol from licensed premises – and told the Licensing Board he had turned his life around since the conviction.“Mistakes are part of what makes us,” he said. “I made a huge one for which I and my immediate family have paid heavily for.
Mr Ali was sentenced to three years and nine months for the offence and served one year and eight months before his release in 2014. He told the board he had been brought up in Robroyston and “at the time Robroyston and surrounding areas had a high rate of drug-related crime”. Sign up to Glasgow Live's newsletter Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day.“I am 34-year-old now and it has been a long time since 2012.
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