A drug dealer was found hiding in a bathroom with more than 150 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin during a house raid.
Olivia Kamara had a previous similar conviction and Liverpool Crown Court heard on Monday, June 6 that she had not long been released from prison when she was caught again. The 26-year-old was found with Class A drugs after police raided a house on Lovely Lane in Warrington on the morning of September 9 last year.
Police raided the house after spotting another woman, Louise Butler, involved in a drugs transaction in Lovely Lane. Butler went back into the house on Lovely Lane where she was living with her "abusive and bullying" partner.
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After a few minutes she re-emerged and walked towards Colin Street, reportedly to meet a drugs customer. But Butler was intercepted by police and wrestled to the ground.
Peter Hussey, prosecuting, said: “She immediately spat out a number of small wraps of what turned out to be five £10 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin as she was wrestled to the floor."
While police detained Butler in the street other officers raided the house on Lovely Lane and found Kamara in the bathroom holding a wrap of heroin in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. Mr Hussey added: “Text messages indicated it was a graft phone.
"A flare message had been sent out to about 50 contacts earlier inviting them to purchase drugs, saying, ‘Scottie on with dynamite’.” She was asked if there were more drugs and she indicated towards a kitchen cupboard where nine batches of heroin and crack cocaine were hidden in a plastic bag.
Mr Hussey said the total amount of wraps recovered, including the five Butler spat out, was 90 crack cocaine and 67 heroin. Police also seized £52 cash from Kamara.
Butler, 41, of Hughes Avenue, Warrington, and Kamara, of Ravenna Road, Allerton, both pleaded guilty to possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply. The court heard Butler has previous convictions but none for drugs but Kamara had been jailed for two and a half years for dealing £5,500 worth of crack cocaine by Bournemouth Crown Court.
Butler pleaded guilty on the basis she had been pressured by her then partner who reportedly told her she would not share heroin with her unless she went out and made the two drugs transactions. Defence barrister Simeon Evans said Butler, who sobbed throughout the hearing, had mental and physical difficulties.
She had only become involved with class A drugs after meeting her partner and she ended up addicted. Since her arrest she has undertaken voluntary rehabilitation and no longer uses drugs or alcohol.
Mr Evans said: “She has a personality disorder which makes her susceptible to being exploited and manipulated”.
Frank Dillon, defending, said Kamara had a difficult adolescence and for the last decade “had lived a hand to mouth existence with no fixed home or stability". He added she has been attending church and supporting other homeless people.
Judge David Potter jailed Kamara for four years three months and sentenced Butler to 23 months imprisonment but suspended it for two years. He also ordered her to carry out 30 days of rehabilitation activities. Butler told the judge: “Thank you so much.”
