Adam Strachan was caught by police when they saw him going in and out of a flat using a key and later found a bag of cocaine in the property.

The 28-year-old, who also played for Partick Thistle and Ross County, told officers that the drugs were his.

Strachan, who appeared in the dock at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday, April 20, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of the class A drug on January 15 this year.

Sheriff Martin Jones QC sentenced him to 18 months in prison for the offence.

The court heard that officers saw Strachan going into and leaving a property at Frazer Street in Glasgow.

They later stopped a car that Strachan was a passenger of, before searching the flat in Glasgow’s east end.

A sports bag with £2,640 of cocaine was found and Strachan admitted that the drugs were his. The plea comes less than a year after Strachan was spared jail for possessing almost £2,000 of heroin.

Strachan was jailed for 12 months in December 2012 after admitting carrying knives on him but he was released early in February 2013 with a tag and on a curfew to a flat in Maryhill. In March 2013 he was caught with the drugs down his pants when he turned up at a friend’s house while police were searching it.

Speaking after being given a community payback order in March 2014 and ordered to do 240 hours of unpaid work, the dadof- one said: “I’m just relieved to get a chance to redeem my stupid actions.

“I genuinely thought I was going to be handed a custodial sentence but this is now a chance for me to put things right.

“I hope my wee girl will get me back on the straight and narrow. If she can’t, who else can?” He even claimed he was going to try to get a job and considered social care as an option saying: “I would like to help people not to make bad decisions I made.” Strachan signed with Clydebank on two occasions, firstly in season 2011-2012. He returned to the club during the 2013-2014 campaign but was released after he was caught in possession of heroin.

The expiry date was a month later in March, only weeks before the latest offence took place.