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Dating
The Scottish Sun is stamped "Published: 15:52, 11 Aug 2026". It says the man "esterday pled guilty" and gives the seizure as "December 20, 2024". The item is dated to the plea, 10 August 2026, and names the earlier seizure in the headline.
Category
The item records a court outcome and so sits in Policy, not Trafficking.
Quantities
The headline gives "£700k" and the article gives a potential value of "£654,720". The item states the value in the article. The prosecutor is quoted as saying each suitcase "contained 44 vacuum-sealed half-kilogram packages of a herbal substance found to be cannabis". The article gives no total weight, so the item records none.
Map pin
The plea was heard at the High Court in Glasgow, for which Wikidata has no entry. The pin is Wikidata's point for Aberdeen Airport (Q8981), where the article places the seizure, rounded to two decimals, as an event site.
Attribution
The article calls the man "the latest in a wave of hash couriers" and describes the substance elsewhere as a "herbal substance found to be cannabis"; the wave is the outlet's framing. A warning about gangs recruiting couriers through social media is attributed to the National Crime Agency's Borders Threat Lead. The article names two co-accused who did not appear and for whom warrants were granted; this news item does not name them or the man.
These notes were recorded when the news item was prepared. Éloise 02:37, 7 November 2026 (+07)