Scotland’s “Queen of street Valium” flaunts lavish lifestyle in online videos
Jodie Gilmour’s major drugs operations were revealed by the cracking of the EncroChat communications system. She spent £100,000 on cosmetic procedures, designer clothes and gambling
Scotland’s “Queen of street valium” exposed as “influencer” gym bunny
Scotland’s “Queen of street Valium” has been flaunting her lavish lifestyle and fitness regime in a series of online videos.
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Jodie Gilmour, 32, is behind bars awaiting sentence for her part in an organised crime drug dealing business supplying deadly fake Valium tablets.
But the Daily Record can reveal she paraded her expensive cosmetic improvements, designer gear and gym activities in a series of “influencer” style videos after being charged over the offences.
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Fitness fanatic faces a long jail sentence after admitting running a major drugs racket at the High Court in Glasgow last month.
But she has also been appearing in a series of videos, which show off her gleaming new teeth implants and apparently enhanced lips.
Drug dealer Jodie Gilmour – TikToK
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The Tik Tok footage shows off Louis Vuitton gear and Tom Ford perfume, as she prepares for a night on the town.
She also completes gruelling workouts in gym sessions filmed in high definition.
Gilmour is facing jail for running a drugs racket that is believed to have turned over millions of pounds in recent years.
In court, prosecutors revealed that at least £100,000 was spent by the young crime boss, with cash also being burnt on gambling.
The brazen gangster, who claimed benefits, also drove around in a souped-up £60,000 Audi RS3 hot-hatch, with no visible signs of earning the cash to support such a spectacular lifestyle.
Gilmour – closely connected to the Daniel crime family – is notorious in Glasgow’s Possilpark, where she was known to run the peddlars of blue benzo pills around Saracen Street, one of Scotland’s drugs blackspots.
A source told the Record: “Jodie is presenting herself online with professional looking videos, showing off her glitzy lifestyle like a top influencer.
“The only influence she’s been in Glasgow has been a bad influence, over many years.
“There are many families around Possilpark who have lost people to street Valium overdoses and they will be sickened at the life Jodie Gilmour has enjoyed.”
Our story ten years ago
The source added: “She has never shown any remorse for her drug dealing and has absolutely loved people to see her in flashy cars and designer gear.”
Gilmour empire finally came crashing down in September 2023, when cops raided her flat close to Possilpark.
Three months earlier customs officers intercepted a suspicious package that led Scottish cops to her home.
The High Court heard that the package from Las Vegas was addressed to Jodie. Labelled as containing candles it instead concealed £2,200 worth of cannabis.
A subsequent raid on Gilmour’s home resulted in officers seizing eight different mobile phones and £11,183 of cash.
Gilmour bragged about her wealth in 2016, aged just 22
Prosecutor Michael Macintosh revealed that Gilmour had also been nailed via messages on EncroChat – the communications system favoured by high level gangsters that was cracked by French police in 2020.
On the system Jodie Gilmour used the handle “scarabflicker”.
Unguarded references to her home and family members – backed up by photos she shared – proved that Gilmour was behind the offer of a swap of a stolen £35,000 watch for 220,000 fake Valium tablets. She eventually managed to exchange the expensive timepiece with another gangster for a huge haul of pills.
An associate on EncroChat dubbed her “the Queen a scoobs” – a street name for the blue benzodiazepine pills that were sold on the street as Valium.
Gilmour offered to supply 150,000 pills in that deal and revealed that she had the ingredients to mix up ”1.5mill” more.
Drug dealer Jodie Gilmour – Video Grabs from Tik Tok
The High Court in Glasgow heard that Gilmour, 32, had spent £100,000 on cosmetic procedures, designer clothes and gambling.
The court heard that Gilmour ran a cleaning business in 2020-2023, the period of the offences.
She continued to claim benefits while the firm turned over sums of up to £43,000 in a year.
But more than £500,000 in cash went through her bank account in that period.
“Significant spending” by Gilmour included £20,000 on cosmetic procedures, a similar amount on designer clothes and £37,000 spent on gambling accounts- with only £9,000 returned in winnings.
A £25,000 Rolex watch was also discovered in the room where she was sleeping when police raided her home.
Gilmour pleaded guilty to a charge of involvement in serious organised crime.
The charge involved the “sale and supply” of cannabis, etizolam or other benzodiazepines. She also banked dirty cash and arranged the transfer of the money between accounts.
Drug dealer Jodie Gilmour – TikToK
Gilmour was remanded in custody after her guilty plea at the High Court in Glasgow..
She had been out on bail but was ordered to be detained by Lord Renucci pending sentencing at the High Court in Dundee on February 15.
The source said: “People were amazed that she wasn’t jailed years earlier but she was very clever.
“She was spending money and bragging about her wealth on Facebook while people around Glasgow were dying in droves from overdoses – and that sickened a lot of local people.
“But the EncroChat bust got a lot of bigger fish than Jodie and she was one of hundreds to get caught in the net.”
Gilmour also previously appeared in the dock at the same court on drug charges in 2018.
She had been accused, along with her boyfriend Ryan Bradford, of being involved in a major street Valium racket.
But she walked free at the time after her not guilty plea was accepted- Bradford admitted he was the one responsible and he got a four and a half years jail stretch.
Our story in 2018, when Gilmour’s boyfriend was caged for drugs
At the couple’s home there were a pair of £795 Christian Louboutin shoes, designer jackets and a receipt for an £8000 watch.
The High Court in Glasgow heard Bradford was put under surveillance, as he drove around, delivering drugs. It was alleged in court that Jodie Gilmour had been driving him around.
Etizolam tablets – sold as Valium – found there had a street value of £400,000.
The Record has told how communities in Scotland have been being wrecked by the influx of millions of cheap pills.
Blue fake Valium – known as the Blue Plague or Scoobs – can be fatal when mixed with other drugs including heroin and methadone and prescription tablets like gabapentin and pregablin.