‘Intelligent’ single mum caged after being caught with over £100k worth of cocaine and heroin
Alisha Bain, 35, was sentenced to three and a half years after police uncovered Class A drugs, cash and a “crack cocaine recipe” during a search of her Aberdeen home linked to organised crime activity.

A single mother was jailed for three and a half years after she was caught with cocaine worth more than £110,000 on the streets and a recipe for producing crack cocaine.

A police search of Alisha Bain’s home in Deer Park Drive, in Aberdeen, also recovered heroin with a potential value of £4670 and more than £3000 in cash.

A judge told Bain, 35, at the High Court in Edinburgh that she was “an intelligent woman” who for the last 10 years has worked in the health service.

Lady Ross said: “You must know cocaine and heroin cause misery and suffering every day across Scotland. You were subject to controlling behaviour, but you knew what you were doing and you knew it was wrong.”

The judge told Bain that if she was sentencing her following a trial she would have jailed her for five years for the drug offences.

Bain earlier admitted that on December 20 in 2024 she was concerned in the supply of both cocaine and heroin at Deer Park Drive and elsewhere. Both Class A drug offences were aggravated by a connection with serious organised crime.

The court heard that Bain was seen by police, who were carrying out surveillance, driving into her home street before approaching a van carrying a bag. The bag was passed through a passenger window of the vehicle before it was returned to her and she went to her address.

Officers later carried out a search at her home and recovered the heroin and cocaine, with a potential maximum value of £113,580, along with cash and a tick list which contained instructions for making crack cocaine.

Police also carried out a search of the van and found a bundle of cash which contained £9950 with a hair band around it with Bain’s DNA on it.

Advocate depute Lisa Gillespie KC told the court that Bain was a single parent with two previous convictions, but had never served a jail sentence before.

Defence counsel Bill Adam told the court that Bain has a very supportive family who will look after her child while she serves a prison sentence.

He said that at the time of the offence she was in “a controlling relationship”. He said: “She is very remorseful at having become involved in this enterprise in which, I would suggest, she played a subordinate role.”

Bain faces a future proceeds of crime action as the Crown seeks to confiscate profits of crime from her.