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Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
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Author:  captain cab [ Wed May 06, 2015 7:39 am ]
Post subject:  Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car



A TAXI driver was caught with heroin worth more than a quarter of a million pounds in his car, a court heard.

Police arrested Basharat Hussain, a driver with Leeds city centre-based Aireline Taxis, as he headed along the M62 on his way to deliver seven kilogrammes of the class A drug worth £272,600.

Hussain, 28, was jailed for five years, nine months after pleading guilty to possession of heroin with intent to supply.

Leeds Crown Court heard officers stopped Hussain between junctions 34 and 35 at Eggborough at 7am on November 17 last year.

Hussain was arrested and immediately told officers he had drugs in a rucksack on the back seat of his vehicle.

He was found in possession of two mobile phones. One of the phones showed he had contacted the same number on ten occasions on the morning of the incident.

John Harrison, prosecuting, said: “The prosecution’s case is that this defendant was a trusted courier operating as a member of a well organised crime group delivering class A drugs.”

Andrew Dallas, mitigating, said Hussain agreed to act as a courier in a bid to pay off a £500 debt to the man who gave him the drugs to deliver.

He said Hussain had borrowed the money as his family were in serious financial trouble.

Mr Dallas said it was the first time Hussain had been involved with drugs and he had no plans to commit further offences. The barrister said Hussain had been “groomed” by a more serious criminal into taking a huge risk by delivering the drugs.

He added: “He was borrowing money out of desperation, having been unable to get it from a traditional source and he has paid the price.

“He has been corrupted by those to whom he owed.”

Recorder Henry Prosser told Hussain: “Had you not got into debt you would not have found yourself in this position.

“A substantial term of imprisonment must follow.”

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mai ... -1-7245391
Author:  jimbo [ Wed May 06, 2015 4:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
Should have claimed it was for personal use...
Author:  Sussex [ Wed May 06, 2015 5:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
jimbo wrote:
Should have claimed it was for personal use...

Would have needed the truck of an elephant to justify that lot.
Author:  Nidge2 [ Wed May 06, 2015 9:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
captain cab wrote:
Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car



A TAXI driver was caught with heroin worth more than a quarter of a million pounds in his car, a court heard.

Police arrested Basharat Hussain, a driver with Leeds city centre-based Aireline Taxis, as he headed along the M62 on his way to deliver seven kilogrammes of the class A drug worth £272,600.



I thought it was against their religion to mess with drugs? #-o #-o
Author:  gusmac [ Wed May 06, 2015 10:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
Nidge2 wrote:
captain cab wrote:
Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car



A TAXI driver was caught with heroin worth more than a quarter of a million pounds in his car, a court heard.

Police arrested Basharat Hussain, a driver with Leeds city centre-based Aireline Taxis, as he headed along the M62 on his way to deliver seven kilogrammes of the class A drug worth £272,600.



I thought it was against their religion to mess with drugs? #-o #-o


It never bothered the Taliban.
Author:  Nidge2 [ Thu May 07, 2015 4:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
gusmac wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
captain cab wrote:
Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car



A TAXI driver was caught with heroin worth more than a quarter of a million pounds in his car, a court heard.

Police arrested Basharat Hussain, a driver with Leeds city centre-based Aireline Taxis, as he headed along the M62 on his way to deliver seven kilogrammes of the class A drug worth £272,600.



I thought it was against their religion to mess with drugs? #-o #-o


It never bothered the Taliban.


Something else I could never understand, they spout off against drugs and alcohol being the evil of evil yet they'll gladly sell both.
Author:  captain cab [ Thu May 07, 2015 9:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
wasn't there less about in the days of the Taliban?
Author:  gusmac [ Thu May 07, 2015 2:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Leeds taxi driver had £250,000 of heroin in car
Nidge2 wrote:
gusmac wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:

I thought it was against their religion to mess with drugs? #-o #-o


It never bothered the Taliban.


Something else I could never understand, they spout off against drugs and alcohol being the evil of evil yet they'll gladly sell both.


Christianity bangs on about money being the root of all evil.
Hypocrisy is part and parcel of most religions, not just Islam.
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