A BRADFORD drug dealer today had his prison sentence increased to ten years when he was locked up for 18 months on top of a lengthy jail term for peddling Class A drugs in Manchester.

Javad Khan, 27, was already serving an eight and a half year sentence when he appeared before Bradford Crown Court for possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply in Shipley.

Khan, whose address was given as HMP Berwyn, appeared on a prison video link to be jailed for the Bradford area offences committed while he was on bail for drugs trafficking in Manchester.

Kristina Goodwin, prosecuting, said that at 6.20pm on March 25 last year, police saw a black BMW in Rochester Street, Shipley. It was parked in the middle of the road with the engine running.

Khan was smoking a cannabis joint in the passenger seat and drugs and money were found in the car. He had 11 packages of cocaine and ten of heroin on him, valued at £122.

Text messages on his phone showed he was dealing in drugs.

Ian Cook said in mitigation that Khan had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

He had been given an eight and a half year jail sentence for similar drugs offences in Manchester last year and was determined that this would be his last custodial sentence.

He had completed courses in prison that would address the impact of drugs and his thinking skills. He had five young children and his wife was struggling to cope on her own.

Khan’s current release date was in 2025 and he and his wife were looking to move from the area to make a fresh start away from his old associates.

Judge Andrew Hatton said that between January 1, 2017, and June 21, 2019, Khan was involved in an organised crime group supplying cocaine, heroin and cannabis in the Manchester area. Before he was to stand trial there, he was dealing in drugs on bail in Shipley.

On May 10, 2021, he pleaded guilty to three conspiracy allegations in Manchester.

“With a complete and utter disregard for your bail and the fact that you were to stand trial, you were dealing Class A drugs,” Judge Hatton said.

Khan was expecting significant financial advantage and had full knowledge of the operation.

He had written to the court regretting what he had done.

“What a shame that you didn’t think of that when you were peddling Class A drugs on the streets of Shipley,” Judge Hatton said.

Khan was jailed for 18 months to be served consecutively to the sentence he is already serving, making ten years in all.