Deaf dealer who was taught to recognise drugs on young offender’s course

  A deaf drug dealer who claimed he only knowlege of narcotics came from a youth offending course has been jailed for three years. Shane Hopwood, 22, was caught on undercover police footage selling both heroin and cocaine and was an ‘accomplished drug dealer’ Hopwood insisted he had been forced to trade in the substances after breaking the back window of a car belonging to a notorious gang member known only as ‘Kieran’ but a judge told him his excuses…