Coventry drug dealer 'pulled gun' on customer over £130 debt

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Coventry drug dealer 'pulled gun' on customer over £130 debt

Postby dutchman » Sun Nov 03, 2019 10:15 pm

Kaysey Coleman, from Coventry, was later found with 122 wraps of drugs

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A Coventry dealer who pulled a gun on one of his customers over a £130 drug debt has been jailed.

Kaysey Coleman and his driver Mateusz Kowalik had both pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

Coleman, aged 24, of Salford Close, Coventry, who also pleaded guilty to possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply them, was jailed for a total of six years and two months.

Kowalik, of Tulliver Street, Coventry, who admitted further charges of having a bladed article and possessing crack cocaine with intent, was jailed for three-and-a-half years.

Prosecutor Simon Hunka said that earlier this year a Stratford drug-user had run up a debt of £130 to Coleman, who had been his dealer for about 12 months.

Mr Hunka pointed out that Coleman also had to be dealt with for possessing a knife at the George Eliot hospital in Nuneaton in April, which he had denied but had been found guilty of after a trial in the magistrates court.

Mr Hunka added that at the time of the offences Coleman was subject to a two-year suspended prison sentence imposed at the crown court in January last year for possessing heroin and crack with intent.

Coleman was jailed for four years for the drug offences, with a consecutive 14-month term for the gun – on top of 12 months of his suspended sentence which he was also ordered to serve.

And Kowalik was given two-and-a-half years for the drugs, nine months for the gun and three months for the lock knife.

Of the incident with the gun, Judge Barry Berlin told them: “You Coleman threatened him with a black handgun.

“He was terrified by this, as anyone would be.”

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