A Scottish drug smuggler has married a woman that he met whilst he was in a Caribbean jail after being found guilty of smuggling hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of cocaine.
Paul Cairns was said to have had a traditional Scottish ceremony to Cameron Rosa who is a Dominican Republic native.
The best man on the day is understood to have been his smuggling partner in crime and it is said that another former trafficking inmate bagged an invite.
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Cairns, 35, was found in possession of nearly half a million of cocaine at Punta Cana airport back in 2009 - shortly after his arrest he boasted about the relaxed prison system on the island before being released in 2019, the Daily Record reports.
Despite being let out of prison, he had to remain on the island until his sentence was served.
The Renfrewshire smuggler fathered a child whilst behind bars and it is believed that he proposed to Carmen in 2011.
His fellow convict smuggler, Daniel Squires, also served the same sentence and was by his side at the wedding.
A source said: “Cairns couldn’t wait to get back to Scotland after his 10 years was up but he had to marry his lover for her to be allowed to live in Britain. The minute he was allowed back to Scotland, he brought his partner over and they got married in Renfrewshire. Squires was the best man.”
Cairns took time the day after his wedding to post a pic from the ceremony. He wrote: “Me and my wife loved every minute of it.”
The newlywed couple moved back to Glashow in 2019.
It is noted that another Scottish drug mule was also imprisoned in the Dominican Republic, Daniel Patterson. He too was at the wedding.
Patterson and his partner Kelly Carrigan were caught with almost seven kilos of the drug in their luggage in 2009 and jailed for eight years. The haul was worth £300,000.
Cairns and Squires were jailed for a decade in 2010. They were linked to a gang run by William Byrne of Wemyss Bay, Renfrewshire, who was jailed that same year for four-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
Our sister paper the Sunday Mail previously revealed they were all under the control of crime boss Roy Dunstace, who lived in Spain. His empire was smashed and he was jailed for 11 years in 2015.
In 2019, it emerged Cairns had refused to swap his cushy island prison cell for his hometown jail – so he could stay with Carmen. In 2013, Cairns posed for a picture with his second child, captioning it with a Spanish phrase meaning “Me and my daughter”.
It later emerged Squires had also had a child while behind bars. The Record tried to approach Cairns for comment.
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