A drugs courier asked police to pick him up after breaking down with £100,000 of cocaine in his car.

Mark Mickowski was travelling to Aberdeen with the stash when his car broke down on the A702 near Edinburgh on January 9 last year.

Officers agreed to give him and his girlfriend a lift to a nearby Travelodge after he made an emergency call, but became suspicious because of the couple's behaviour.

On searching Mickowski's bags they discovered two kilograms of cocaine with a street value of more than £109,000.

Mickowski, 35, was jailed for three years at the High Court in Glasgow after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine.

His lawyer, Susan Duff, had said he had taken on the job to clear debts and wanted to be caught.

She said: "He did call on the police because he wanted the matter at an end. He regrets his involvement in the commission of this offence."

Judge Lord Tyre told Mickowski, of Willowpark Crescent, Aberdeen, he would have been jailed for four years had he not pled guilty.