AN EIGHTH drug trafficker netted by the police crackdown on mobile street dealers in Bradford East has been locked up for three and a half years.

Ibrahim Gul was weighing out and bagging up his own stash of heroin to sell in the city centre when he was snared by undercover officer Libby working for Operation Errantdance.

It was his second conviction for dealing Class A drugs and Gul was warned by the judge imprisoning him today that the sentences would only get longer.

Gul, 21, of Ravens Avenue, Dewsbury, pleaded guilty to three offences of supplying crack cocaine and heroin between March 26 and 28 and possession of heroin with intent to supply on November 13.

Prosecutor Philip Adams told Bradford Crown Court that Gul approached Libby on Nuttall Road in central Bradford and told her he was selling drugs.

She asked for a wrap of heroin and he sold it for £10 from a stash of about ten wraps that he had on him.

Gul gave her the number of the Lloyd Line and the following day he rang her and said drugs were being sold. She and a male addict waited for him next to some gardens and bought a wrap each for £7.

On March 28, Libby called the Lloyd Line and after receiving no reply, she got a text saying drugs were again being sold. She called at 5pm and Gul, who was caught on a covert camera, sold her a wrap of crack cocaine.

When the police searched his home, they seized dealer scales from his bedroom, rolls of plastic bags, bags with the corners cut off, a Kinder Egg and a package of heroin with a street value of £237.

Mr Adams said Gul’s role with the Lloyd Line was significant, with everything he needed to prepare and sell the drugs.

Gul made no comment when he was interviewed by the police.

His barrister, Shufqat Khan, conceded that he had a previous conviction for selling Class A drugs when he was a juvenile.

Gul was only 20 at the time he was caught by Operation Errantdance and he had been held in custody since November 17, his first taste of prison.

He lived with his mother and had worked in a warehouse after leaving school with no qualifications.

Gul intended to use his time behind bars to gain qualifications so that he could get a job on his release.

Judge Jonathan Rose said that Gul wasn’t a drug addict he was selling heroin and crack cocaine on the streets solely for his own profit.

Drug traffickers like Gul perpetuated crime because users stole, burgled and robbed to fund their habit, or were drawn into dealing themselves.