THE HEIR TO A MILLION POUNDS PLUS FORTUNE AND MEMB

THE HEIR TO A MILLION POUNDS PLUS FORTUNE AND MEMBER OF THE

SAME POLO CLUB AS PRINCE CHARLES WAS JAILED YESTERDAY (TUES) FOR

DRUGS TRAFFICKING.

‘THE OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN REDUCED TO AN ERRAND BOY’ WAS

CAUGHT UP IN A HEROIN RACKET AFTER ARRIVING IN LONDON FOR A HOLIDAY,

SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT HEARD.

AND DESPITE HIS WEALTH AND ‘HIGH POSITION’ IN HIS NATIVE

INDIA, SUNIL SHARMA, 29, PROVED ‘THAT EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE.

‘
SHARMA WAS CAUGHT RED-HANDED WITH NEARLY A KILO OFROIN

WWITH A STREET VALUE OF A QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS.

HE WAS TRAPPED AFTER UNDERCOVER COPS FROM THE CENTRAL DRUGS

SQUAD WERE INTRODUCED TO HIM BY AN INFORMER.

AS HE LEFT THE SERPENTINE RESTAURANT IN LONDON’S HYDE PARK

WITH THE COVERT COP AND THE INFORMANT OTHER OFFICERS SWOOPED, SAID MR

NICHOLAS FREEMAN, PROSECUTING.

THE HEROIN WAS FOUND PACKED IN A SHOULDER BAG HE WAS CARRYING

THE COURT HEARD.

JAILING HIM FOR FOUR YEARS, JUDGE GLYN-MORGAN SAID: ‘UNTIL

NOW YOU HAVE LED A DISTINGUISHED LIFE AND COME FROM A DISTIGUISHED

BACKGROUND.

‘YOU HAVE DISGRACED YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY BY GETTING

INVOLVED IN THE PEDDLING OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.

‘I ACCEPT THAT YOU DIDN’T COME OVER FROM INDIA ESPECIALLY TO

DELIVER A CONSIGNMENT OF HEROIN, BUT WHILE HERE YOU WERE APPROACHED

AND ASKED TO HAND OVER A PACKAGE WHICH CONTAINED A CONTROLLED DRUG.

‘
HR ADDED: ‘AS THE PROSECUTION COUNSEL SAID ”EVERY MAN HAS

HIS PRICE” AND THAT WAS YOUR DOWNFALL.

‘

SHARMA, A FORMER CAPTAIN IN THE KING EDWARD SEVENTH REGIMENT

OF THE INDIAN ARMY, DENIED KNOWING THAT THE BAG CONTAINED HEROIN.

INSTEAD, HE SAID HE THOUGHT THE BAG CONTAINED A SAMPLE
OF IVORY.

HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF POSSESSING HEROIN WITH INTENT TO

SUPPLY ON DECEMBER 21 LAST YEAR.

HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF BEING

CONCERNED IN THE SUPPLY OF HEROIN.

ENDS

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