Dad of tragic Scots tot tries to bolt from court after being confronted with snaps of him snorting drugs

THE DAD of a tragic baby tried to bolt from court after he was confronted with snaps of him snorting drugs.

Kieran Sivewright, 25, claimed he didn’t take illicit substances when he was in a relationship with Amy Beck and wasn’t aware of her being a dealer.

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But he was shown a video taken on her phone where he snorted party drugs ketamine, MDMA and MCAT.

Captioned “late night adventures”, the short Snapchat clip also had the tag “at boy’s nae right”.

Photos taken from the same device featured him cutting up a line of white powder on a Scooby Doo DVD as well as having a line of a substance laid out on his neck.

Beck, 32, is on trial accused of causing the death of their three-month-old son Olly-James by exposing him to MCAT.

When Kieran was asked if he knew she was peddling drugs during their time together he attempted to do a runner.

Kieran, who was stopped by staff at the High Court in Aberdeen, said: “I can’t do it. You’re going to have to let me go. I need to go.”

When he returned and was quizzed again by prosecutor Erin Campbell, Kieran said: “She was giving her friends drugs.”

He said drugs were “floating about” their house and snorted from surfaces, boards and DVDs.

When asked if he ever supplied substances to Beck, he said: “She gave the drugs to me. She could hand me the board and I could hand her it back.”

Student Kieran said he was in a relationship with Beck for about six months to a year before she fell pregnant with their son Olly-James. They’ve since split.

He told the court that the tot was born premature and was so tiny that he refused to give him a bottle.

Kiersan said: “I didn’t like feeding him because he was so little. I didn’t feed him or make up his bottles. That was her job.”

Hours before the tot died Kieran revealed he woke up in bed in Sandhaven, Aberdeenshire, alone early in the morning.

The court heard he called and messaged Amy several times and pleaded with her to come home.

Kiersan said: “He wouldn’t settle. I had never had a baby before then. I was just worried.”

He broke down in tears as he told how he carried out chest compressions on the tot when he stopped breathing.

Olly-James was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in December 2019 but didn’t survive.

Traces of stimulant MCAT were found in his system and his death was blamed on exposure to the drug, along with a severe stomach infection.

Later the court heard a statement from Steven Ledingham, who claimed he regularly bought MCAT from Beck.

He said: “I would get this from her every weekend. I had started scoring drugs from Amy a few years back.

“She was my regular dealer. I used Amy as I trusted her and knew the MCAT she gave me wasn’t being cut with other stuff.”

The court heard that Ledingham has since died, but a statement he gave to cops in 2020 was read out.

He said: “Both Amy and Kieran were dealing MCAT. It was well known in the Broch that they were dealing MCAT.

“I don’t know if they were dealing anything else.”

Ledingham claimed he gave Beck cocaine hours before Olly-James died.

Beck is accused of exposing Olly-James and two other children to drugs, as well as dealing.

She denies the charges and the trial before Judge Fiona Tait continues.