A DRUG dealer was caught walking down Cowley Road with more than 100 wraps of crack and heroin ‘plugged’ in his anus.
In the dock at Oxford Crown Court yesterday was Wazi Mohammed, of Becklow Road, London.
The 23-year old had already admitted two counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs before his sentencing hearing.
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At that hearing prosecutor Alexandra Bull said that Mohammed had got off an Oxford Tube bus from London at St Clement’s on the afternoon of January 28.
At about 1.45pm two police officers spotted him walking down Cowley Road and acting suspiciously, repeatedly looking behind him.
File photo of Cowley Road. Picture: Google Maps
He was arrested and taken to the police station before he was transferred to the John Radcliffe Hospital, on suspicion that he may have been hiding drugs on him.
Mohammed refused an X-ray or examination and so he was discharged and returned to the police station.
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While there, prosecutors said, he changed his story and admitted that he had ‘around 90 wraps’ of Class A drugs ‘plugged’ between his buttocks.
He was then rushed back to the hospital where he eventually passed a haul of drugs made up of 69 wraps of cocaine, a 20-wrap bag of heroin, a 14-wrap bag of heroin and two further single bags of heroin and cocaine.
In all, Mohammed had transported from London to Oxford 105 wraps of Class A drugs, made up of 2.43g of heroin and 6.23g of crack cocaine, with a street value of about £1,050.
File photo of bags of cocaine, for illustrative purposes only.
In mitigation his defence barrister Richard Denczak said that his client had accrued a drugs debt and was moving the drugs in a bid to settle up.
He added that Mohammed would not name those higher up the drugs chain out of fear of what might happen to his family.
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Sentencing Judge Peter Ross derided the ‘scourge’ of county lines drug dealers and the ‘misery’ they heap on the community.
He said: “This is I am afraid a classic county lines-type case.
“You say that you were working off a drugs debt, you never raised that with police and I see no evidence of you having a drug habit.
“Most Mondays I sit in this court and deal with the drug review court. I see the misery that is wrought amongst offenders and our wider community by the scourge of Class A drugs.
“People like you are doing this for one reason and one reason only - greed.”
Mohammed was jailed for 40 months for each count to run concurrently with each other.
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