A DRUG dealer who tried to hide incriminating evidence after a violent robbery at a Bradford supermarket has been jailed for six years.

Basit Hussain, 21, sped off from the police in the black Jaguar used in the £14,500 raid on the Tesco Express Store in Manningham Lane.

A G4S security guard was Tasered in the raid at 10.30am on April 18, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Hussain, of Sherwood Place, Undercliffe, Bradford, was charged with the robbery but did not match the description of the culprit, who was “six feet tall and white”, prosecutor Heather Gilmore said.

Hussain pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in the Jaguar, and driving while disqualified.

Yesterday, the Crown accepted his denial of the robbery and his guilty plea to perverting the course of public justice by attempting to hide evidence.

Hussain was also sentenced for supplying heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine, after pleading guilty to those offences at Leeds Crown Court.

Ms Gilmore said Hussain was on bail for the drug dealing offences when he was pursued by the police in the Jaguar less than three hours after the robbery. He was first spotted on Harrogate Road and when he hared off, jumping red lights and driving on the wrong side of the road, a stinger device was deployed on Killinghall Road.

During the chase, Hussain flung a carrier bag containing empty cash bags from the robbery out of the car window. He was boxed in by the police on Harewood Road and had to be Tasered after trying to smash his way out. A cash-in-transit note from the robbery was found in his pocket.

Hussain was charged with drug dealing after police seized his phone with incriminating texts on it. His “customers” were traced and one had spent £10,000 buying heroin from him over the past six months.

Hussain worked for the drug dealing ‘Billy Line’ in Bradford before setting up on his own as ‘Tony’, selling in Menston and Guiseley.

His barrister, Peter Byrne, said Hussain was not aware the Jaguar was going to be used in a robbery but then tried to get rid of the evidence.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, labelled Hussain “a sole trader of some consequence and professionalism,” in the drugs world.

He was jailed for four and a half years for the drugs offences and 18 months for the robbery and driving offences, the sentences to run consecutively. Hussain was banned from driving for four years.