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”.
Jabran Ali was one of three men jailed after they were stopped by police in the village of Voe on Hogmanay 2012 and were found to be carrying heroin with a “substantial” street value, reported at the time to be £140,000.
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.
