"Lying dealer jailed for flooding Coventry streets with cocaine and ecstasy"

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Mohammed Ahmed was jailed for dealing drugs from his Wyken flat and possession of a Taser



A drug dealer claimed someone else was living at his Coventry flat after it was raided by police who found hundreds of pounds worth of cocaine and ecstasy.

But a jury rejected dealer Mohammed Ahmed’s story after hearing that his fingerprint was found on a Taser he kept at the flat to protect his drugs stash.

And Ahmed, 26, of Vincent Wyles House, in Attoxhall Road, Wyken, was jailed for five years and eight months by a judge at Warwick Crown Court.

He had denied possessing cocaine and MDMA (ecstasy) with intent to supply them and possessing a prohibited firearm – but was found guilty of all three charges.

Prosecutor Michael Tanney said the offences arose as a result of a search of Ahmed’s flat after the police had stopped a VW Golf in Coventry in February 2019.

The driver and Ahmed, who was the front seat passenger, were both arrested after officers found drugs in the car, and in his hip bag Ahmed had a lock knife with a 9cm blade.

The police also seized a business card with the name Jazzy on it and a phone.

And when Ahmed was searched they recovered a plastic tub containing bags with 254mg of cocaine, two ecstasy tablets and 427mg of ecstasy crystals in them, worth a total of £80.

Officers also took from Ahmed the keys to the flat in Vincent Wyles House, of which he was the sole registered tenant.

Inside the flat police found two letters addressed to Ahmed and one to a Miss McDermott.

And on a shelf under the coffee table was a working Taser device, defined by the Firearms Act as a prohibited weapon, on which the fingerprint of Ahmed’s right forefinger was found.

In a bag also found under the table was a rock of cocaine weighing 5.28 grams, which would have been worth around £200 once divided into one-gram deals, 23 ecstasy tablets worth £5 each, and a 9.24-gram rock of MDMA crystal worth £630 in £30 deals.

There was also a stack of about 100 business cards in the flat identical to the one taken from Ahmed, a machete, a set of digital scales and almost 1,000 small self-seal bags.

But Ahmed claimed the drugs were nothing to do with him, and that he was not in residence at the flat, but was letting someone else stay there.

Judge Anthony Potter told him: “I have to deal with you for four offences you committed on the 4th of February 2019, and three of those you took to trial.

“The offences reflect your role as a drug dealer, and a dealer of pernicious substances, cocaine and MDMA in two forms.

“The impact of drugs on society is writ large on a daily basis in these courts, and you knew a lot of people in that area of Coventry were drug-users whose lives were a mess.”

The judge observed that bank cards in a variety of names were also found in the flat, which he commented Ahmed was ‘no doubt holding against debts for drugs’ he had supplied.

“In relation to the Taser, I conclude that that weapon was there with the intention that, if necessary, you would use it in conjunction with your intent to supply drugs.”

And he added: “I treat the presence of the weapon at the flat as an aggravating feature.”