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LIVERPOOL PHV DRIVER FERRIED DRUGS TO GRANDMA IN NEWCASTLE TO WEIGH AND BAG UP
A grandmother has been jailed after more than £35,000 of heroin and cocaine was found inside her Newcastle home. The drugs had been dropped off at Carol Dale’s house by Liverpool taxi driver, David Williams, who took a 350-mile round trip in his PHV from Liverpool to Newcastle to deliver them. She would then weigh them and bag them up and he would return to Merseyside with the money to be given to his bosses running the operation. They were both caught as part of a joint investigation between Northumbria Police and the North East Regional Special Opera- tions Unit (NERSOU) after Williams had been spotted visiting Dale on five separate occasions last year. On 4 October officers found more than 1.4kg of heroin - worth more than £30,000 - and almost 60g of crack cocaine - worth £4,500 – in Dale’s kitchen. They also seized scales, drugs equipment and £3,000 in cash.
A rucksack was also found in the boot of Williams’ Skoda con- taining £19,000, which he later claimed was his life’s savings, as well as a further £500 in his pocket. Dale and Williams appeared at Newcas- tle Crown Court on 1
September where they both admitted their respective roles in the conspiracy. Dale, 56, admitted possessing heroin with intent to supply and possession of criminal property. She was jailed for seven years and three months after previously being given a suspended sentence for her involvement with the same organised criminal group five months earlier. Williams, 49, from West Derby, Liverpool, was jailed for 40 months after admitting
LONDON PHV DRIVER CAUGHT SMOKING CRACK COCAINE IN HIS PHV
A PHV driver for Addison Lee has been sacked after appearing to smoke crack cocaine behind the wheel of his vehicle in broad daylight. He was filmed inhaling smoke from a sub- stance which he had burned in tin foil as he was sitting in one of the company’s Ford S- MAX cars during the afternoon. The driver had been spotted by a local resi- dent on a busy tourist road in West London at the end of August. He told The Sun: “I was doing some DIY on my balcony and noticed an Addison Lee driver pull up. It’s a really busy road as it’s near some tourist attractions and on a busy bus route, so it seemed a bit unusual for him to just be sitting there. “At first I thought he was smoking in his car but then I realised that he was actually smoking some kind of drug off a bit of tin foil. It looked like crack, but I’m not entirely sure that’s what it was. “He just held it when people walked past, but as soon as they had gone on he started inhaling it again. “Had he been on the other side of the road, there’s a lot less footfall but he didn’t seem to care that people were all around. “The car was there for about 20 minutes. I didn’t contact the police because I didn’t
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think they would show up in the 15 minutes that he had been there and then it would be a waste of their time. “The fact that he drove off after inhaling whatever it was is dan- gerous. It’s pretty brazen
to do it on a main road mid-afternoon.” A spokeswoman for Addison Lee said: “We are grateful this has been brought to our attention and are taking this issue extremely seriously. “Having reviewed the footage and spoken with the driver, we have taken the decision to terminate his contract with immediate effect, and have reported the matter to Transport for London. “We ask drivers to adhere to the highest standards of conduct and we have a zero tolerance policy on the use of any illegal substances.”
being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine and possession of criminal property. Judge Sarah Mallett said: “You were both working as part of county lines between Liv- erpool and the North East. That line has been established, especially in Gateshead and Durham, for a substantial period of time and it has to be said that, over that time, the supply of drugs through that route has caused much harm to people’s lives.”
DEVON DRIVER ARRESTED FOR DRUG DRIVING
A taxi driver in North Devon has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving. A concerned passenger called police on the night of 2 September and reported con- cerns that the driver was under the influence. Officers subsequently stopped the taxi in Bideford and the driver was arrested.
PAEDOPHILE HUNTERS TRAP W. YORKS DRIVER
A group of a paedophile hunters has accused a West Yorkshire taxi driver of ask- ing for naked pictures of a child. The man apparently sent explicit messages to a 13-year-old girl who was actually a decoy which had been set up by Child Pro- tection Awareness. The cabbie posed as a 17-year-old and asked the child to be his girlfriend. It is claimed that he works in the Wakefield and Leeds area and that he has been grooming children for nearly two years on different social media accounts. A spokeswoman for the group said: “His case is a very complicated one. We have had many decoys on him for quite some time as he would delete his account every couple of days before recreating a new one. He had knowledge of what’s needed so he never gave us a complete chat log to con- duct a sting or hand to police. “However, we kept going and played along as we knew it would only be a matter of time before he slipped up.” The group are based in Ireland but the alleged sting is said to have taken place in North Yorkshire. Yorkshire Live understands the man has since been arrested by West Yorkshire Police.
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