A teenage girl caught with nearly £130,000 of heroin in her handbag at a nightclub has been given an opportunity to turn her life around.

Terri Ann Trebilcock was detained by police after a fight at Liquid nightclub in Aberdeen.

Officers found 374 bags of heroin when the 19-year-old was asked to empty her handbag at the city's police station on February 24 last year.

She appeared at the High Court in Glasgow on Friday after previously admitting being involved in the supply of class-A drugs.

Defence counsel Shahid Latif told the High Court in Glasgow that Trebilcock had been pressurised into becoming a drugs courier by an abusive boyfriend.

The judge, Lord Tyre, spared Trebilock from a spell of detention and instead sentenced her to 200 hours of community service.

He said: "I'm giving you an opportunity here to put your life in the right direction, but make sure you take advantage."

The court heard that Trebilock now lives in Kent in England where she is attending a college course in beauty therapy.

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