A Scottish newspaper editor has been sent to jail indefinitely in Glasgow.

John Maclean, editor and publisher of the monthly free Govan Press and Glasgow South East Press, is staring down the barrel of a long stretch in a cell at the former Govan Police Station.

But he has been afforded the luxury of daily release from the confines of incarceration as he is now a paying tenant.

John’s is one of the first businesses to set up home in the prison section of the former police station which was been converted into units as part of a £3.5m regeneration project in Glasgow.

The renamed Orkney Street Enterprise Centre still retains many of its original features such as iron railings in passageways, wooden cell doors and musings in the form of prisoner graffiti.

Last year John, who also does subbing shifts on the Scottish editions of national newspapers like The Sun, became the new owner of The Govan Press, first published in 1878.

Now he is eager to use his time behind bars to expand his company Glasgow Press and its titles, which he writes and produces along with freelance contributors.

He said: “I’m not the first journalist to end up in a jail cell in recent years but at least I didn’t have to bug any phone calls to get in here.

“My office is actually three old cells knocked together. I was one of the first businesses to set up in this section, so I had a spell of solitary confinement.

“But it’s a very central location for me in Glasgow’s South Side and the facilities are great.”

John gets used to his new surroundings

The adapted prison cells in the new enterprise centre