A DOZY drug dealer was caught throwing heroin and mobile phones over a prison wall for inmates – after lobbing a fresh orange over too “as an afterthought.”
Unfortunately for David Hyland, 25, the fruit almost hit a prison guard who in turn alerted police who raced to the scene.
Hyland tried to escape on a bicycle, only to find himself cornered in a nearby street.
In a bid to get away, he peddled the bike directly at a female police officer before leaping off and launching it at her.
And although the bike slammed into her body, desperate Hyland was captured by other officers.
Hyland was jailed for two years today (Tuesday) at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for supplying the class-A drug and assaulting the WPC.
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