Households all across the UK are bracing for their energy bills to skyrocket in October among predictions that they could reach as high as £5,300.
26.07.2022 - 20:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A young dad has been jailed for three years after he inadvertently supplied undercover police officers with drugs in order to repay a debt to his dealer - the day before he decided to find a job to repay the money he owed.
Jaden Bond, 22, cycled up to two undercover officers on July 21, 2021, after the pair had ordered “two whites and a dark” - crack cocaine and heroin, through the “James” drug supply phone line as part of an operation to crack down on drug dealing in Manchester City Centre.
A hearing at Manchester Crown Court, Crown Square, on Monday July 25, heard that Bond, of Shawhill Walk, had been recruited as part of the supply chain to repay his debt to his dealer from his own drug use, and was making runs on a blue pushbike for one day before he decided to get a job to repay his debts instead.
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Kate Gaskell, prosecuting, told the court that the two undercover officers arranged a meeting at “the rocks”, when Bond cycled up to them and handed over three wraps in exchange for some cash. The officers tested the wraps and found them to be crack cocaine and heroin, and Bond was circulated as a wanted person on police computers, until he was arrested for an unrelated matter on May 8 this year.
Bond was also charged with a non-domestic burglary, after his fingerprint was found at the entrance of Pollen Bakery in Ancoats where three men forced their way in during the early hours of September 13, 2020, before taking an iphone, a macbook, petty cash, and a case of coke.
Neil Ronan, defending, accepted that Bond must go to prison but pleaded for leniency for his client as the offences are of “some vintage” and he was
Households all across the UK are bracing for their energy bills to skyrocket in October among predictions that they could reach as high as £5,300.
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