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A teenager who supplied ecstasy to fellow pupils at Greenwood Academy has been jailed for three months.

Kieran Miller, 17, of Gateside, Irvine, pleaded guilty to possessing the class A drug with intent to supply it at the Dreghorn school between March 6 and 27 this year.

Kilmarnock Sheriff Court was told that police received information that “a supply of ecstasy was taking place in or around the school”.

Officers went to the school around 12.30pm on March 27 and Miller was detained.

He was searched and, while nothing was found on his person, in his schoolbag he had 32 purple tablets, a “tick list” and cash.

The tablets were later found to be ecstasy. Miller was interviewed at Saltcoats police station and the court heard he gave “a lot of information in relation to whom he’d supplied some tablets”.

He was charging his young customers £10 a tablet.

Miller, however, refused to name his supplier.

Martin Duffy, defending, said his client had been a pupil at the school at the time of the offence.

He said: “I think what comes across is the extreme remorse he feels for getting himself into this.

“It was a money-making scheme which he did not think through.”

The solicitor said Miller came from a family with “no experience of the court process” and the offence had had a significant impact on his parents.

He has since left school and applied for courses at college.

Mr Duffy said: “He is a keen footballer. He does not use alcohol, drugs or tobacco.” Miller, he said, was aware courts took “a very dim view of behaviour of this sort”.

Mr Duffy added: “He has been left in no doubt as to the potential consequences for himself.”

Sheriff Alistair Watson told Miller he took account of the fact he was only 17, came from a good background and had shown remorse.

However, he had class A drugs which were “potentially hugely dangerous, particularly when your intention was to supply them for financial gain, effectively to children”.

The sheriff added: “In my view the supply of drugs, within a school environment particularly, has to be treated with no tolerance whatsoever. I send out this message to anyone tempted to engage in the supply of drugs at a school – the result at my court will almost inevitably be the visitation of a custodial sentence.”