TWO GLAMOROUS MODELS WERE AT THE CENTRE OF THE FIR

TWO GLAMOROUS MODELS WERE AT THE CENTRE OF THE FIRST MAJOR POLICE

HAUL OF THE POWERFUL APHRODISIAC DRUG ‘ECSTASY’, A COURT HEARD TODAY

(TUES).

STUNNING 32-YEAR-OLD LESLEY ‘KIPSEY’ OWEN AND FRIEND JACQUELINE

‘ZOE’ KIRBY, 37, ALLEGEDLY SOLD THOUSANDS OF POUNDS WORTH OF THE DRUG

TO LUSTY YOUNG YUPPIES.

AND WHEN POLICE RAIDED A NOTTING HILL, WEST LONDON, FLAT, THEY

DISCOVERED OVER 300 ECSTASY TABLETS, WORTH #8000 ON THE STREET, SAID

MR PETER MOSS, PROSECUTING.

A FURTHER SEARCH REVEALED A ONE KILO STASH OF HERBAL CANNABIS

VALUED AT #1500, SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT HEARD.

‘FROM THE OVERALL PICTURE IT IS CLEAR THAT THESE TWO LADIES WERE

GIVING FROM THAT ADDRESS, WHICH NEITHER WAS LIVING AT, A DRUGS

SUPPLYING SERVICE,’ CONTINUED COUNSEL.

WHEN POLICE FOUND #4000 CASH IN KIRBY’S FLAT, SHE CLAIMED IT WAS

A GIFT FROM A SUGAR DADDY AND WAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DRUG DEALING

PROFITS.

‘SHE SAID SHE AND OWEN WERE MODELS AND ORGANISED EVENTS.

SHE

MENTIONED FAMOUS PERSONALITIES TO SUPPORT HER CLAIM,’ SAID MR MOSS.

KIRBY SAID BOTH SHE AND OWEN, UNKNOWN TO THEIR BOYFRIENDS, HAD A

SUGAR DADDY WHO GAVE THEM CASH.

AND SHE MAINTAINED THAT SELF-SEALING PLASTIC BAGS FOUND AT HER

HOME WERE USED TO PACKAGE JEWELLERY THEN SOLD ONTO HER FAMOUS

ACQUAINTANCES, MR MOSS TOLD THE JURY.

THE PAIR WERE ARRESTED WHEN ANOTHER DRUG DEALER UNWITTINGLY

OFFERED AN UNDERCOVER COP 22 TABLETS OF ECSTACY FOR #500.

A FILOFAX DISCOVERED ON THE DEALER REVEALED VITAL INFORMATION
WHICH, CLAIM THE PROSECUTION, LED POLICE TO KIRBY AND OWEN.

‘TWO NAMES APPEARED TWICE – ‘ZOE’ WHICH IS THE FIRST DEFENDANT

KIRBY AND ‘KIPSEY’ WHICH IS OWEN’S NAME.

THERE WERE TELEPHONE NUMBERS

FOR EACH AND A RADIOPAGER NUMBER,’ MR MOSS ADDED.

IT WAS DURING A SECOND RAID ON KIRBY’S HOME IN WOODCHURCH ROAD,
KILBURN, WEST LONDON, THAT THE STASH OF #4000 CASH WAS UNCOVERED.

‘OFFICERS HIT THE JACKPOT IN A CUPBOARD WHERE A SMALL SPINDRYER

WAS FOUND TO HOLD #1260 CASH.

IN A HANDBAG A FURTHER #2975 IN CASH

WAS DISCOVERED,’ MR MOSS SAID.

A DRUG ACCOUNT BOOK WAS ALSO ALLEGEDLY FOUND, TOGETHER WITH

SELF-SEALING BAGS ALLEGEDLY USED FOR PACKAGING CANNBIS.

AFTER A VISIT TO OWEN’S HOME IN PORTLAND PLACE, MAYFAIR, OFFICERS

WERE FINALLY LED TO THE DRUGS FLAT IN POWIS TERRACE, NOTTING HILL.

A TOTAL OF 334 TABLETS OF ECSTACY WERE FOUND THERE IN A PLASTIC

BAG AND JAR.

‘THAT LITTLE LOT WAS VALUED AT OVER #8000,’ CONTINUED COUNSEL.

A CUSHION SIZED BAG OF HERBAL CANNABIS VALUED AT #1500 WAS ALSO

DISCOVERED.

RUBBISH FOUND THERE REVEALED CORRESPONDENCE LINKING BOTH WOMEN

TO THE FLAT.

‘PART OF IT WAS BRITISH TLELCOM LETTERS CONCERNING THE RADIO

PAGER WHICH WAS FOUND AT KIRBY’S FLAT,’ SAID MR MOSS.

IN COURT, BOTH WOMEN DENY BEING CONCERNED IN SUPPLYING ECSTASY

BETWEEN JANUARY 1 AND MAY 14 LAST YEAR.

THEY ALSO DENY SUPPLYING CANNABIS BETWEEN THE SAME DATES.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS