John Mack, 38, was caught in a car on his way to Glasgow’s Silverburn Shopping Centre.
John Mack(Image: Daily Record)
A gangland figure who flouted a super-ASBO by going to Tesco has been jailed for 12 months.
John Mack, 38, was caught in a car on his way to Glasgow’s Silverburn Shopping Centre with his partner on October 9 2024. Mack had been released from a four-year prison after he helped flood Glasgow with £400,000 of street Valium.
His co-accused was Gary Jamieson – brother of gangster Stephen Jamieson – was also locked up at the time. Mack was also made subject to a five-year serious crime prevention order (SCPO) with a string of conditions.
One was that he had been told to inform police of any journey that he made where he was the passenger in a vehicle.
Explaining Mack breaching the order, fiscal Josh Dowie told Glasgow Sheriff Court: “Officers saw a Vauxhall Corsa beside them. “They saw Mack sitting in the passenger seat.”
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Police had been aware of the SCPO and discovered there had been no confirmation from him that he took the journey.
Mack was later arrested and told officers that he had not been a passenger in the vehicle.
The hearing was told of a second breach of the order when he failed to notify police of a new address within 48 hours.
Mack pleaded guilty to the two breaches of the SCPO. He also admitted two breaches of bail.
Linda Findlay, defending, told the court: “He drove one leg of the journey to Tesco while his partner drove the other leg.
“Simply, he was required to provide notification and did not do so.
“He had notified police about other maters which they required to be updated about.”
The lawyer further stated that his issue with his address was amid a break up with his partner where he was between houses.
Miss Findlay added: “He got himself in a bit of a spiral.”