Dealer who flooded Scots jail with drugs behind bars for killing pensioner
- Rory Cassidy
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
A drug dealer is behind bars after being convicted of killing a pensioner in a road crash.
John Moore struck Andrew McMenamin in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, during a dangerous driving rampage.
He was speeding in his Audi sports car with personal reg when he hit the 79-year-old, who was crossing the road.
Moore, 32, struck the pensioner in Glasgow Road, Uddingston, on May 17, 2023.
The High Court in Paisley heard he was driving his £60,000 Audi RS 3 Vorsprung TFSI quattro - with registration H8 XJM - at "excessive speeds".
The jury was told he was driving at more than 60-miles-per-hour in a 20-miles-per-hour limit before the crash.
The court also heard that he had seen Mr McMenamin from 100 yards away and was doing 37-miles-per-hour when he hit the pensioner on the 30-miles-per-hour road.
The jury was told that he hit Mr McMenamin with such force the pensioner was "thrown into the air".
The court heard the pensioner was "so severely injured that he died" as a result of the incident.
Moore denied his guilt and went on trial charged with causing death by dangerous driving and driving while uninsured.
He had also been accused of a number of other offences, including driving with an insecure wheel, having excessively tinted windows, and driving without a seat belt.
But those additional charges were dropped and the jury convicted him of causing death by dangerous driving and driving without insurance.
He was convicted earlier this month and has been remanded in custody ahead of sentencing next month.
Temporary Judge John McCormick said: "This was dangerous driving. You had visibility of approximately 100 yards and were doing 37-miles-per-hour on a 30-miles-per-hour road.
"He died at the scene. I have read the victim impact statement submitted by his daughter."
Paul Nelson KC, defending, said Moore, of Carntyne, Glasgow, knows he will receive a lengthy jail term over the killing.
Five months after the road death, Moore was spared jail over a big to flood Barlinnie Prison with drugs.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard he handed 1,463 street Valium tablets to jail guard Martin McGee in a car park in Glasgow's Maryhill area.
McGee claimed he later stashed the tablets inside a rowing machine at HMP Barlinnie, in the east end of the city.
McGee was being watched by senior prison staff and had been spotted talking to two long-term inmates who were linked to organised crime.
McGee claimed the pair threatened him if he did not help them in their plot.
Moore was sentenced to do 270 hours of unpaid work as part of a Community Payback Order, and was made the subject of a Restriction of Liberty Order (RoLO).
The RoLO saw him being electronically tagged and having to stay in his home between 7pm and 7am every day for nine months.
The charge against McGee was found not proven after he lodged a special defence of coercion.
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