SHAME SHAME LIVERPOOL TAXI DRIVER STOPPED
WITH £4M WORTH OF HEROIN IN CAR BOOT
A taxi driver stop- ped on the M6 with more than 40kg of heroin – worth a staggering £4 mil- lion – in his car boot has been jailed. StokeonTrentLive reorts that officers from the Central Motorway Policing Group
stopped
Barry Smith on the northbound side of the motorway bet- ween junctions 13 and 14, for Stafford, last September After searching his car the drugs were found and seized
along with a quanti- ty of cash. And after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin at Stafford Crown Court, the 44-year-old,
from
Halewood, near Liv- erpool, was sen- tenced to four years, eight months in prison. Police had been tracking
Smith’s
Skoda Octavia be- fore he pulled onto the hard shoulder at around 1.20pm. Asked by the offi- cers if he had
Barry Smith and the blocks of heroin discovered in his car
anything illegal in the
replied; “No”. car, Smith
However, a subse- quent search of his car revealed two
HASTINGS TAXI DRIVER SEXUALLY ABUSED VULNERABLE YOUNG GIRLS
A former taxi driver who sexually as- saulted two young girls has been sent to prison for 18 years. Harry Miah, from St Leonards, used to work as a cab driver driving children to schools in East Sus- sex. The 53-year- old was sentenced at Hove Crown Court in February for the sex attacks which happened between 1991 and 1998 in the Hastings area. Miah’s job was tak- ing care of vul- nerable young chil- dren and escorting them to school and home. During the taxi school run he sexually abused a schoolgirl
aged
between the ages of 12 and 15 on mul- tiple occasions.
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child after a trial in September
last Harry Miah
In September last year he was con- victed of
two
counts of indecen- cy with a child and one count of incit- ing a child to engage in sexual activity. During the same period Miah also sexually
abused
another young girl he knew from when she was six until her teenage years. He was convicted of two counts of indecency with a
year, and in January this year he plead- ed guilty to another count of indecency with a child and one count of attempted rape, all in relation to that girl. He also admitted having
extreme
pornography on his computer. Miah will be a regis- tered sex offender for life and was also given a lifelong sex- ual harm prevention order, severely res- tricting his access to children and computers. PC Kelley Gray told the Argus: “This has been a really diffi- cult and distressing case, due to its his- toric nature and to the challenge of sensitively but fully obtaining the evi-
dence from such a long time ago, but this outcome shows that it is possible. “This investigation started in April 2016 when the victim of the offences
in
Miah’s taxi contact- ed us about a separate matter and was triggered by this into recall- ing and disclosing what had happened to her in the 1990s. “This has been a very long process for everyone in- volved. Both vic- tims showed great courage
and
strength in coming forward to describe the horrific events that
they have
experienced, events that as young vul- nerable
they should never have
had endure.”
children to
large sports bags, containing square light-brown packs, in the boot and a large amount of cash next to the spare wheel. A drugs expert examined the seized items and deter- mined the packs contained 15-20cm thick blocks of hero- in, weighing 507g each. The total weight of the packs was 40.5kg. Based on a typical street deal of £10 per 0.1g of heroin, the total was valued at just
over £4,050,000. DC Neil Johnson, of Staffordshire Police, said: “This is a warn- ing to those who think they can prey on the vulnerable in our communities. “Smith was followed and stopped by our officers. He thought he could get away with moving a huge amount of heroin but he now has to reflect on that in prison.” The heroin will be destroyed and a fur- ther £5,600 in cash was seized.
PLYMOUTH DRIVER HAS WEAPON AND DRUGS
A taxi driver was caught with a sinis- ter blade disguised as a money clip after drugs police raided his home. The Plymouth Her- ald reports that officers who search- ed the house of Dominic Longley, aged 43, found he was not there – but discovered cocaine and amphetamine. He was stopped driving home on the A38 and police also found the disguised weapon, Plymouth Crown Court heard. Police also found a lethal
belonging to his partner at
stun gun their
shared home. But Tracy Parr avoided jail after the same court was told it had been left behind by her ex- partner – who had
used it to kill fish on the trawlers. Longley also walked free from court, in his case with a a 12- month community order with 90 hours’ unpaid work. He must pay £85 victim surcharge. He pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed article on January 17 last year. Longley, from Ply- mouth also admit- ted possession of cocaine and am- phetamine. Nick Lewin, for Lon- gley, said: “He is a hard working man generally. As a direct
result of
these offences, he has lost his taxi licence. “He is determined to find alternative employment and is looking to qualify as a HGV driver.”
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