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5:17am Friday 9th May 2008
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A judge has urged Bradford people to stand up against criminal Mr Bigs as the city becomes "riddled" with drugs.
Judge Alistair McCallum told two heroin and crack cocaine street dealers they could help lock up the major players for 25 years.
Iftekar Sadiq and Azad Aslam refused to disclose any names after they were caught selling wraps of heroin and crack cocaine in Reevy Road West, Buttershaw.
Sadiq was jailed for four years and Aslam, the father of two young children, for three years.
Judge McCallum urged everyone in the Bradford area to stand up against drug dealers getting rich by "selling poison to young people in our community".
"Bradford is being reduced to a city just riddled with drugs. It has the most appalling record for drugs," he said.
Sadiq, 21, of Luke Road, Canter-bury, Bradford, and Aslam, 39, of Scholemoor Avenue, Scholemoor, Bradford, pleaded guilty to possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply, supplying the drugs and possessing criminal property.
Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that Aslam was dealing because he was out of work and Sadiq was forced to peddle the drugs to pay off a debt to his dealers.
Prosecutor Gavin Howie said the pair were caught selling wraps of the drugs hidden in a chocolate egg.
Officers in Bradford Area Drugs Team swooped on July 26 last year. They blocked in Aslam's car, smashed a window and seized the keys. Sadiq had £270 cash in his pocket and £1,250 was found at Aslam's home.
Aslam told police he had been "doing drops" in Little Horton and Canterbury for a month.
Sadiq, who was a drug addict, was paying off a debt to dealers.
Sadiq was remanded in custody after failing to appear at an earlier hearing. He was locked up for two years in January 2006 for very similar drugs offences.
Aslam's barrister, Michael Greenhalgh, said he was out of work at the time and paid to drive round doing street deals. But Judge McCallum said Aslam was trading on other people's misery to try to get rich.
The judge said Aslam "was sensible enough not to take any of the poison himself".
Nawaz Hussain, for Sadiq, said he was in "substantial debt" to a dealer. "He wanted to come clean but he faced the real threat of the kind of retribution that can be meted out by those higher up the food chain," Mr Hussain said.
After the case, Sergeant Chris Day, of the Bradford District Drugs Team, said: "We welcome the sentences.
"We work day-in, day-out, on the streets of the Bradford district. You might not see us, as we often work undercover, but we are there and are determined to tackle the problem of drugs. Calls from the public to our Dob in a Dealer line are invaluable and I would urge anyone who has any information or suspicions about drug dealing to contact us anonymously and free of charge on 0800 555111.
"From April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008, we took 1214 calls from members of the public to the Dob in a Dealer line. The team made 441 arrests for drug offences, carried out 354 operations, just short of one a day for the year, and we seized nearly £2 million worth of Class A drugs."
T, Queensbury says...
7:49am Fri 9 May 08
T, Queensbury says...
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chris, BRADFORD says...
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Imran, Heaton says...
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gaz4, east bowling says...
9:46am Fri 9 May 08
chris wrote:Its bad everywhere in brsdford they drive around during the day in expensive cars.dealing where ever and not even discreetly........
In queensbury it is getting bad for drugs also with dealer driving around selling there poison to user. I think all over bradford now this type of thing goes on . They take one dealer off the street and then there other two to take his place.
gaz4, east bowling says...
9:46am Fri 9 May 08
chris wrote:Its bad everywhere in brsdford they drive around during the day in expensive cars.dealing where ever and not even discreetly........
In queensbury it is getting bad for drugs also with dealer driving around selling there poison to user. I think all over bradford now this type of thing goes on . They take one dealer off the street and then there other two to take his place.
gaz4, east bowling says...
9:46am Fri 9 May 08
chris wrote:Its bad everywhere in brsdford they drive around during the day in expensive cars.dealing where ever and not even discreetly........
In queensbury it is getting bad for drugs also with dealer driving around selling there poison to user. I think all over bradford now this type of thing goes on . They take one dealer off the street and then there other two to take his place.
gaz4, east bowling says...
9:46am Fri 9 May 08
chris wrote:Its bad everywhere in brsdford they drive around during the day in expensive cars.dealing where ever and not even discreetly........
In queensbury it is getting bad for drugs also with dealer driving around selling there poison to user. I think all over bradford now this type of thing goes on . They take one dealer off the street and then there other two to take his place.
gaz4, east bowling says...
9:46am Fri 9 May 08
chris wrote:Its bad everywhere in brsdford they drive around during the day in expensive cars.dealing where ever and not even discreetly........
In queensbury it is getting bad for drugs also with dealer driving around selling there poison to user. I think all over bradford now this type of thing goes on . They take one dealer off the street and then there other two to take his place.
gaz4, east bowling says...
9:46am Fri 9 May 08
chris wrote:Its bad everywhere in brsdford they drive around during the day in expensive cars.dealing where ever and not even discreetly........
In queensbury it is getting bad for drugs also with dealer driving around selling there poison to user. I think all over bradford now this type of thing goes on . They take one dealer off the street and then there other two to take his place.
YEADONSTAR, idle says...
10:15am Fri 9 May 08
YEADONSTAR, idle says...
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Woody, Manningham says...
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Woody, Manningham says...
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Woody, Manningham says...
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skippy, says...
11:31am Fri 9 May 08
Woody wrote:not rushing to burmha now are you?
Drugs such as heroin and cocaine are a big problem in Bradford, as is another dangerous drug; alcohol. But no-one is looking at the reasons why so many people use them in the first place. Why are so many people so disaffected with their lives, and with the Society we have co-created, that they will go to such extremes of escapism? Society itself is sick and needs healing.
skippy, says...
11:31am Fri 9 May 08
Woody wrote:not rushing to burmha now are you?
Drugs such as heroin and cocaine are a big problem in Bradford, as is another dangerous drug; alcohol. But no-one is looking at the reasons why so many people use them in the first place. Why are so many people so disaffected with their lives, and with the Society we have co-created, that they will go to such extremes of escapism? Society itself is sick and needs healing.
skippy, says...
11:31am Fri 9 May 08
Woody wrote:not rushing to burmha now are you?
Drugs such as heroin and cocaine are a big problem in Bradford, as is another dangerous drug; alcohol. But no-one is looking at the reasons why so many people use them in the first place. Why are so many people so disaffected with their lives, and with the Society we have co-created, that they will go to such extremes of escapism? Society itself is sick and needs healing.
The_Realist, Keighley says...
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The_Realist, Keighley says...
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Scott Suddards, says...
4:42pm Fri 9 May 08
Andy Bairsto wrote:That is spot on. Anytime the police have to confront anybody they don't like doing it, they would rather take the easy way out and leave them to it. Instead they go punishing the law abiding public who cough up without any arguements.
To get drugs of the streets in any major city would require a large dedicated number of police officers a commidity they haven't got.The ones they do have spare are out using hand held laser pistols to catch real criminals doing 5mph over the speed limit while 200 yards up the road the unlicenced motorbike riders and the drug delivery men go about their business without any problems.
Scott Suddards, says...
4:42pm Fri 9 May 08
Andy Bairsto wrote:That is spot on. Anytime the police have to confront anybody they don't like doing it, they would rather take the easy way out and leave them to it. Instead they go punishing the law abiding public who cough up without any arguements.
To get drugs of the streets in any major city would require a large dedicated number of police officers a commidity they haven't got.The ones they do have spare are out using hand held laser pistols to catch real criminals doing 5mph over the speed limit while 200 yards up the road the unlicenced motorbike riders and the drug delivery men go about their business without any problems.
Scott Suddards, says...
4:42pm Fri 9 May 08
Andy Bairsto wrote:That is spot on. Anytime the police have to confront anybody they don't like doing it, they would rather take the easy way out and leave them to it. Instead they go punishing the law abiding public who cough up without any arguements.
To get drugs of the streets in any major city would require a large dedicated number of police officers a commidity they haven't got.The ones they do have spare are out using hand held laser pistols to catch real criminals doing 5mph over the speed limit while 200 yards up the road the unlicenced motorbike riders and the drug delivery men go about their business without any problems.
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T, Queensbury says...
7:49am Fri 9 May 08