Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail
Police officers found the animal in the back seat of John McNeil's car on the M74 in Glasgow.
Covered by 4 sources from United Kingdom. First reported by BBC News ·
How 4 newspapers cover this story
Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail
Police officers found the animal in the back seat of John McNeil's car on the M74 in Glasgow.
Man caught with £14,000 of drugs while lamb ate chips in back seat avoids jail
Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail
John McNeil has been sentenced to 300 hours of unpaid work after he was caught with cocaine and heroin
Man who was caught in car with £14,000 of cocaine and heroin as a lamb named Pablo ate chips on the back seat avoids jail
John McNeil, 56, was a passenger in Lindsey Sangster's vehicle which was stopped by police on the M74 motorway in Glasgow on the evening of April 22, 2023.
Coverage details
4 outlets from United Kingdom are covering this story: BBC News, Metro, The Independent and Daily Mail. BBC News published it first, on November 2, 2026; the last outlet to join was Daily Mail, 9 hours later.
Key names in the coverage: John McNeil, M74 and Glasgow.
