Two men working for the lucrative ‘T’ drugs line that supplied cocaine and heroin across Bradford and Calderdale were today spared immediate jail sentences after their addictions ‘dragged them into the murky world of drugs trafficking.’

Paul Noble, a warehouseman for Mohammed Tahir’s drugs operation, and Jamil Karim, a street runner, had each been locked up in Leeds Prison for a year when they appeared before Bradford Crown Court on a video link.

Noble, 53, and Karim, 43, pleaded guilty on the day of their trial on Monday to possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply. Noble also admitted production of cannabis at his home in Eton Street, Halifax.

Prosecutor Bashir Ahmed said the men were working for an organised crime group supplying heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine across Bradford and Calderdale.

Mohammed Tahir, 34, of Shalimar Street, Halifax, was locked up for six years last week for running the ‘T’ line between January and April last year. The court heard that his drugs line had received 40,000 calls during a three-month period.

Jailing him, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Richard Mansell QC, said he had been directing and organising the supply of Class A drugs on a commercial scale.

Tahir pleaded guilty to two offences of conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine and further offences of possession with intent to supply and possession of criminal property.

Today, Mr Ahmed said the police searched Noble’s address on July 20 last year and found a kilo of high purity cocaine worth £70,000 and crack cocaine and heroin valued at £5,000.

Noble, Karim and Tahir were all at the house when the police arrived. The officers seized scales and bagging and cutting equipment as well as ‘a host’ of phones.

There was a small cannabis grow in a bedroom comprising nine plants and 20 saplings.

Judge Mansell said he had already sentenced three of those involved in the drugs ring.

Noble and Karim were addicts ‘dragged into the murky world of drugs supply,’ he said.

They were very much at the bottom of the pyramid and felt pressured financially or by their own addictions to work for the organisation.

Judge Mansell said he was giving them the opportunity to turn their lives around after spending many months behind bars.

Noble and Karim, of Lord Street, Halifax, were each sentenced to two years imprison-ment, suspended for 18 months, with 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days with the probation service.