An accountant who gave up his day job to sell drugs was caught twice and led to more than £156,000 worth of crack, cocaine and heroin being found.
Umayr Hanif and Haaris Iqbal were jailed at Leeds Crown Court for a combined total of more than 10 years. The pair had been stopped on Castleford Lane in Pontefract in a VW Passat on November 6 last year. With Hanif driving, the pair were taken out and searched. An iPhone was retrieved from the driver's side door which was 'continually ringing', prosecutor Louise Pryke. It later turned out to be a drugs line number that the police were aware of.
Iqbal, of Wrose Road, Shipley, admitted two counts of dealing in class A drugs. Hanif, of Moorside Road, Eccleshill, Bradford admitted four counts. Mitigating for Iqbal, Alasdair Campbell said it was 'accepted that custody was inevitable'. He said that Iqbal suffered from PTSD due to an incident that was not disclosed to the court and struggled to hold down a job. He said: 'He was preyed upon by others to hold vast amounts of drugs.
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