A CANNABIS dealer was pressured into the trade after selling a faulty car. Robert Ashley, who was caught with 2.5kg of the class B drug, sold a car someone described in court yesterday simply as “a certain individual he is frightened of”. The car developed a fault and its new owner demanded 46-year-old Ashley repay the money. He no longer had the cash, having used it to pay off a debt to another friend. Prosecutor Tessa Hingston told Swindon Crown Court that police officers pulled over Ashley’s Peugeot van on the A429 near Malmesbury on January 17 last year. Inside the van was Ashley, his partner and a nine-year-old child. Also in the vehicle was just under a kilo of cannabis in a Sports Direct bag, scales, a jug used to measure the drugs, and over £1,000 cash in his wallet, pockets and by the driver’s seat.
Cannabis dealer pressured into trade after selling faulty car
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Swindon Crown Court A TEENAGER struck a dad with an ornamental sword over rude comments he’d allegedly made about his mum. Moments later, Jordan Henze, now 18, warned a group of boys playing football in a park that he’d stab them if they stopped him from stealing one of their bikes – after flashing the hilt of his sword. When police caught up with the blade-carrying youngster he denied that the bike, which was found at his mum’s house, had been stolen by him. He claimed to have bought it on Facebook. Sentencing Henze to a three year youth referral order with an intensive supervision requirement at Swindon Crown Court this week, Recorder James Bromige said branded the teenager’s decision to run at his victim while carrying the sword “an incredibly stupid and foolish thing to do”.
A BIRMINGHAM dealer was caught in Gorse Hill with £1,500-worth of drugs. Iyoseph Derry, 32, had more than 150 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin stashed in two Kinder eggs and his jacket pockets, Swindon Crown Court heard. Judge Jason Taylor QC jailed him for two-and-a-half years. The prison time will be served after a five year sentence imposed last September in Stafford for possession of a handgun. Prosecutor Tessa Hingston told the court on Friday that police officers were patrolling known drug dealing hotspots in Gorse Hill on April 10, 2019, when they stopped Derry. He initially gave his name as Charlie Whittaker.