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    Drug dealer is jailed for six years

    Wednesday, 28 December 2016 16:00

    A Bradford drug dealer caught hoarding a stash of heroin and crack cocaine at his home has been jailed for six years.

    54 year old Ashfaq Mohammed, faces a minimum seven year prison sentence as a "three strike" peddler of Class A drugs.  Although he was caught red-handed with more than 100 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine at his flat in Bradford Lane, Laisterdyke, he was given credit for his prompt guilty pleas.

    Mohammed admitted to two offences of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply at his first appearance before Bradford and Keighley magistrates and was committed to the crown court for sentence.

    Prosecutor Heather Gilmore said “51 wraps of crack cocaine and 67 wraps of heroin were found in his jacket by police searching his flat at 6.30am on 1st December”

    In March, 2006, Mohammed was jailed for two years for supplying cocaine and heroin. Six years later, in 2010 he received a four year prison term for possession of heroin with intent to supply it. The court also heard how he had served a long sentence for robbery.

    Mohammed's solicitor advocate, John Bottomley, said “Mohammed is a drug addict whose vulnerability was exploited by those higher up the chain of command.”

    Judge Jonathan Rose set a timetable for a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act to claw back any money or assets possessed by Mohammed.

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