Stephen Jamieson jailed six years after Dubai extradition — Drug Lord
Stephen Jamieson, a drug lord, was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow after being brought back to Scotland from Dubai. He pleaded guilty to being involved in serious organised crime.
Messages used in the case tied him to cocaine, heroin and money discussions with Jamie Stevenson, who is already serving 16 years for smuggling £76m of high purity cocaine in banana boxes. Prosecutor Michael Macintosh said the communications showed cash amounting to several hundred thousand pounds was collected.
Glasgow High Court sentence
Jamieson’s sentence followed his extradition from Dubai and his guilty plea. The court heard that he directed a multi million-pound drug gang and used the username PatrolStaff on the Encrochat communication network.
Messages from PatrolStaff matched Jamieson’s movements, and Jamieson referred to press reports about his dog breeding business and his Jimmy nickname. The encrypted network was later cracked by police.
Encrochat messages and drug prices
The messages between 26 March 2020 and 19 May 2020 included talk of two million pills, cocaine and heroin. Jamieson and Stevenson, who used the name ElusiveAle, also discussed sums owed to them and stock availability.
Jamieson discussed prices for five million etizolam pills and cocaine, offered one person £40,000 per kilogram of cocaine, and put heroin at £18,000 per kilogram. The exchanges also touched on police activity, including losses of cocaine and cash as well as money owed.
John Gurie and Stephen O'Donnell
Jamieson was also in contact with John Gurie, known as SurrealKey, who was sentenced to six years for supplying cocaine. Gurie was detained in April 2020, and a search of his home found cash and a kilo of high purity cocaine.
After police action, Jamieson sent Gurie financial support. Other messages showed Jamieson corresponding with Stephen O'Donnell about collecting money, referred to as paper, and O'Donnell has since been jailed for two years after pleading guilty to possession of criminal property.
Dubai travel and arrests
Jamieson initially travelled to Dubai from Manchester in February 2020, returned to the UK in May 2020, then headed back to Dubai in November. In September 2025, he was arrested in the UAE along with Ross McGill, Steven Lyons and Steven Larwood.
The case now sits as a finished Glasgow sentence with a wider digital trail around it: messages, cash, drugs and travel between Scotland, the UAE and the UK all mapped onto the same period of organised crime activity.
