ONE of the four men on trial in the ‘Sully Line’ drugs case has pleaded guilty to his role in the major Bradford ring-and-bring dealing operation.

Mohammed Vanid Khan, 45, of Cumberland Road, Great Horton, Bradford, has admitted possession with intent to supply heroin and crack cocaine, between November 18 and December 9, 2017.

Khan, who was on trial for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, pleaded guilty to the supply offences on Tuesday in front of the jury at Bradford Crown Court.

Still on trial are Mujahid Mahmood, 28, of Hollins Street, Bradford, David Coates, 34, of no fixed abode and Luqman Nazir, 28, of Farcliffe Place, Heaton, Bradford.

Mahmood and Coates deny conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine. Nazir pleads not guilty to two allegations of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.

The jury has been told that around 700 calls a day were received by the Sully Line from drug users in Bradford between July 2017 and August last year.

It is alleged that the operation had a turnover of at least £2.5 million, but the sum could be up to £10 million, with 200 kilos of drugs involved.

Prosecutor Rupert Doswell said that the police investigation into the conspiracy involved 15 separate seizures of drugs in Bradford.

Yesterday the jury examined a series of calls made from phone kiosks in central Bradford to the round-the-clock Sully Line.

Addicts, including ‘Irish’ and ‘Loz’, also sent the line text messages, arranging for mobile street dealers working for the operation to deliver their drugs.

Loz, a customer standing outside a takeaway, demanded “Phone me. F***ing freezing” while Irish, waiting at the rear of Toys R Us in Manningham, said: “Ring me” and then later “Let me know if you’re coming or not.”

Other text messages, between dealers involved in the operation, took the form of a “running list” of what had been spent, what was owed and where drugs were stored or to be delivered to.

Calls were repeatedly made to the Sully Line from phone kiosks in Lumb Lane, Priestman Close, Keighley Road and Westgate, the court heard.

On the morning of January 6, 2018, police saw a drug deal linked to the phone traffic that involved an Audi A3 on Lumb Lane. The vehicle was followed on to Thornton Road, stopped and searched.

Mr Doswell said that 13 wraps of crack cocaine of 91 per cent purity were seized from the car, along with heroin, cash and phones.

The trial continues.