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Drug dealer jailed for possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply

Stratford Editorial 15th Sep, 2018   0

WHEN Stratford police saw a known drug-user sitting in the passenger seat of a car parked at the town’s railway station, they correctly suspected he was buying drugs.

And after they had arrested driver Mohammed Nabeel, they discovered huge stashes of street deals of heroin and crack cocaine destined for sale in the town.

Despite the obvious evidence against him, including 117 deals concealed inside his boxer shorts, he denied charges of possessing the drugs with intent to supply them.

But the 22-year-old of Stratford Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham, changed his pleas to guilty on the day of his trial at Warwick Crown Court, and has been jailed for two years and eight months.




Judge Sally Hancox also ordered a total of £844 in cash which was seized from him following his arrest to be confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Prosecutor Marion Smullen said in April last year police became suspicious about a Ford Focus they saw on the car park of Stratford College, with a known drug-user close to it.


The next day they saw the same car on the car park at Stratford railway station, where an exchange took place between the driver and a known drug-user sitting in the passenger seat.

Both men were arrested, with the buyer dropping four £10 wraps of drugs on the floor as he got out of the car.

When Nabeel was searched at the scene he had nearly £850 on him.

A further search was carried out at the police station where he was found to have three small plastic bags inside his boxer shorts, containing a total of 36 wraps of heroin and 81 of crack cocaine.

The car was then searched, and in a pouch on the back of the driver’s seat were a further 142 wraps of heroin – taking to total value of the drugs to £2,590.

Miss Smullen said a phone seized from Nabeel, who had a conviction as a juvenile for robbery five years ago, had various ‘marketing messages’ for drugs on it.

Babir Adris, defending, said Nabeel was selling the drugs to pay off his own drugs debt.

Jailing Nabeel, Judge Sally Hancox told him: “It’s said you were acting to a degree under duress from somebody who sold you drugs to go to Stratford and deal drugs for them. You’re someone who has occupied a significant role, selling directly to users – that is, street dealing.”

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