Strong-man guilty of drug supply

Creighton was caught supplying Diazepam

A former Mr Universe has been put on probation for three years after admitting supplying drugs.

Steve Creighton, 41, who won the title in 1998 and is Scotland's most famous body-builder, was also ordered to do 300 hours of community service.

Creighton's Mercedes Benz car and £10,041 in cash are to be confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

He had admitted supplying Diazepam tablets worth several thousand pounds in a Lanarkshire cinema car park.

Police found 4,500 Valium tablets in his flat in Shawlands, Glasgow, which he said were for personal use.

Creighton's lawyer Robert Vaugan told Airdrie Sheriff Court: "He famously won Mr Universe in 1998 having been involved in body-building from 1995 to 2000.

Drug abuse

"He tells me the use of anabolic steroids is endemic at that level of competition and there is a vast use of Valium in competition to calm the body-builders down after they become so pumped up.

"That is why he had so much Valium in his home. The consequences are that body-building is not a healthy lifestyle, particularly at that high a level."

Sheriff Robert Dickson told Creighton: "I accept you do a lot of work for charity but you must also accept that being involved in drugs, particularly the supply of drugs, is a very serious matter."

Creighton's last public appearance was in May in Paisley. Since being caught with the drugs, he has been living on state benefits, the court heard.