Overview

• Sheriff Christopher Shead sentenced the 33-year-old at Falkirk Sheriff Court to 13 and a half months in custody.
• NCA-led surveillance on June 28, 2024 observed him move two boxes between vans in Wishaw before officers acted.
• Police recovered £390,040 in 78 bundles from the second van, with Keatings’ DNA on elastic bands and fingerprints on boxes and some banknotes.
• Keatings pleaded guilty on August 20 to possessing and transferring criminal property under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
• His counsel said a long-standing hip injury and chronic pain led him to accept the job for medication, as NCA and police cast the case as part of wider organised-crime disruption and urged public tip-offs via 101.