DRUG SQUAD OFFICERS FOUND FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF

DRUG SQUAD OFFICERS FOUND FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF DRUGS WHEN THEY
RAIDED A HEROIN DEALER’S HOME, A COURT HEARD.

WHEN THE OFFICERS SWOOPED ON THE ACTON HOME OF JOBLESS STEPHEN
HOBBS THEY FOUND HEROIN, COCAINE, CANNABIS, AND TWO KINDS OF
AMPHETAMINE COMPOUNDS IN SEPARATE PACKETS, SAID MR PHILIP GAISFORD,
PROSECUTING AT ACTON CROWN COURT.

AND HOBBS WAS FOUND IN A BEDROOM CONTAINING SCALES AND A SYRINGE,
MR GAISFORD ADDED.

HOBBS READILY ADMITTED HE BOUGHT A QUARTER OUNCE OF HEROIN FOR
#300 EVERY DAY, THE COURT HEARD.

‘I ONLY USE A COUPLE OF GRAMS, THE REST I GET RID OF TO FRIENDS’
HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD THE OFFICERS.

MR ROBERT MEIKLE, DEFENDING, SAID HOBBS AND OTHER ADDICTS HAD
BANDED TOGETHER TO BUY DRUGS.

THEY WERE DESPARATE TO GET HEROIN AFTER THEIR PREVIOUS SUPPLIER
WENT OUT OF BUSINESS, COUNSEL ADDED.

HOBBS BOUGHT THE HEROIN CONSIGNMENT DELIVERED TO HIS HOME EACH
DAY, AND FINANCED HIS OWN HABIT BY SELLING THE DEADLY DRUG TO HIS
FRIENDS, THE COURT HEARD.

HOBBS,33, AN UNEMPLOYED CARPET FITTER OF CLOISTER ROAD, ACTON
WAS JAILED FOR A TOTAL OF THREE YEARS AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO
SUPPLYING HEROIN ON OR ABOUT JUNE 21 LAST YEAR.

HE ALSO ADMITTED POSSESSING HEROIN WITH INTENT TO SUPPLY,
POSSESSING 117 MILLIGRAMS OF COCAINE, 129 MILLIGRAMS OF AMPHETAMINE
SULPHATE,794 MILLIGRAMS OF METHYLAMPHETAMINE, AND 215 MILLIGRAMS
CANNABIS RESIN, AND HANDLING STOLEN TOOLS FOUND AT HIS HOME, ALL ON
JUNE 21 LAST YEAR.

THE COURT HEARD HOBBS ACCEPTED THE TOOLS AS PAYMENT FOR HEROIN.

PASSING SENTENCE, MR ASSISTANT RECORDER COLGAN TOLD HIM ‘THOSE
WHO SUPPLY HEROIN TO OTHERS MUST EXPECT TO LOSE THEIR LIBERTY’.

ENDS.

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