A drug dealer flushed £6,500 worth of heroin down a toilet - but police smashed the waste pipe and recovered the drugs. Elijah Henry, 25, of Moorgate Street in Radford, pleaded guilty to possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply, possessing cannabis and £1,993 in cash.
The offences were in 2019 at a property in Bakersfield. But Henry was caught again three years later.
This time, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Friday (February 17), it was for offences of possessing cocaine and heroin - as he dealt drugs in his late father's car. Police forced entry to his Audi and seized wraps of heroin and a "burner phone".
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A piece of paper in the car led them to search an address where they found cash, dealer bags, scales, a significant quantity of designers shoes, and 47 packages of cocaine and 15 of heroin. After pleading guilty to all charges, his total sentence amounted to five years in prison.
Judge Stuart Rafferty KC told him in the dock: "I can't imagine your father would be thrilled to find after his death you were driving around in his car to sell drugs. He would have been moritified.
"When you were a young man, you fell in with the wrong people, and those people put you on the streets selling drugs. Even as a young man, you must have known and seen what Class A drugs do to people; they do not make them happy for a few minutes, they make them miserable forever".
He made reference to the 2019 offences when Henry was only 22-years-old. "When police came to raid that house, you sought to dispose of those drugs as best you could by flushing them down the toilet," the judge said. "There was £6,500 worth of heroin and much less cocaine."
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