A 29-YEAR-OLD father is beginning a six-year jail sentence under the "three strikes" legislation for repeated Class 'A' drug offences.

Although Iftekar Sadiq was not caught dealing on the streets his DNA was found on part of a stash of heroin and crack cocaine wraps which had been dumped by an unknown man who fled from police in October last year.

Prosecutor Dave Mackay told Bradford Crown Court that the discarded package contained 13 wraps of crack cocaine and 15 heroin deals.

Sadiq, of Pemberton Drive, Little Horton, was not arrested until he went to the police in March this year and confessed to helping out his dealer once or twice.

Mr Mackay said Sadiq told officers that he may also have served a customer or two and received drugs himself in return.

Sadiq pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of drugs and Mr Mackay revealed that the defendant had two qualifying convictions for similar offending on his criminal record.

In 2006 Sadiq was sentenced to 15 months in custody for possession of heroin with intent to supply and in 2008 he was given a four-year jail term possessing and supplying crack cocaine and heroin.

Barrister Mark Brooks, for Sadiq, said his client had been addicted to drugs for ten years and his associate had offered to knock £4 off his drugs if he helped him out.

Mr Brooks said Sadiq had helped with bagging drugs and had transferred drugs from the dealer to someone else on one occasion.

He said the defendant recognised that Judge David Hatton QC's powers were limited and prescribed by law, but he asked him to impose the shortest term possible.

Judge Hatton told Sadiq that he was obliged by law to impose a seven-year minimum jail term in light of his previous convictions, but that could be reduced to reflect his guilty plea.

"I'm prepared to give you some credit for your plea of guilty even though it came late in the day and it will be more than ten per cent," the judge told Sadiq.

"The least sentence I can impose in all the circumstances is one of six years imprisonment."

Sadiq was given a concurrent two-month jail term for an unrelated harassment offence which he also admitted.

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