A MAN aged 44 was caught selling heroin and crack cocaine on the streets 11 times in a month while on licence after serving a six year jail sentence for trafficking Class A drugs.

Mohammed Yousaf bragged about the high quality of his merchandise while plying his trade for the Billy Line in Keighley, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Yousaf, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment on a video link to Leeds Prison yesterday.

He pleaded guilty to 14 charges of selling wraps of heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover police officer on 11 separate occasions between June and July last year.

Prosecutor Paul Nicholson said Yousaf plied his trade in Postman’s Walk off West Lane, and on Mount Street, Oakworth Road and Skipton Road.

Customers were directed to outside a car wash, a petrol station, a health centre and the “old cop shop.”

Mr Nicholson said on one occasion, Yousaf got his drugs out of an abandoned chest of drawers in the street.

He boasted about the high quality of his stock, encouraging the officer to find him more customers.

“The defendant was bragging about how banging the B was,” Mr Nicholson said, referring to heroin.

It was believed he was “sacked” by his bosses after refusing to give the undercover officer change on the final date he was caught selling drugs.

Yousaf was imprisoned for six years in 2013 for possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply. The court heard he was recalled on licence until 2019 after dealing again within three months of his release.

His solicitor advocate, John Ozyer, said Yousaf was coerced and pressured to sell drugs. He informed his supervising probation officer before his arrest and the police confirmed they were also told. Mr Ozyer said Yousaf was vulnerable in prison and had requested transfer to a special unit to avoid other inmates from the Keighley area.

He did not attend Friday prayers in jail because he feared coming into contact with the people who put pressure on him.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said Yousaf would have faced up to seven years in prison if he had not provided proof that he was coerced into peddling the drugs.

“He was pressured into it. I can see that,” Judge Thomas told Mr Ozyer.

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