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Jail for Brighton drug dealing pair ‘forced out of London’ (From The Argus)
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Jail for Brighton drug dealing pair ‘forced out of London’
12:00pm Monday 11th February 2013 in News
Ainsley Kelly jailed for two-and-a-half years
A pair of London drug dealers who operated out of the homes of drug users in Brighton have been jailed.
Ainsley Kelly, 18 of Mayell Road, London, and Rhyan Mayers, 20 Saltourn Road, London, of the JJ Crew were jailed for two-and-a-half years each for possession with intent to supply and conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine at Hove Trial Centre on Friday.
The pair supplied drugs to Brighton addict Sarah Woolgar in return for her allowing them to run their operation out of her Queensway flat in a tactic known as cuckooing.
She was given an 18-month suspended sentence for conspiracy to supply charges.
The pair claimed they were forced to sell drugs in Brighton by London-based dealers with whom they had run up big debts.
They initially started dealing from stairwells in blocks of flat where they were conspicuous to neighbours before moving into the homes of Woolgar and at least one other Brighton drug user.
It is estimated they could have been selling up to £2,000 worth of heroin and crack cocaine in a week.
The pair were first arrested and bailed after being picked up by police on September 4 in London Road, Brighton, and again on September 21 when a warrant was carried out on Woolgar’s house.
Police found 177 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine as well as another 40 wraps inserted inside Mayers’ body.
Two other members of the crew were also sentenced including Daniel Rock, 23 of Rattray Road, London, who received an 18-month suspended prison sentence and 300 hours of unpaid work, and a 16-year-old boy from South West London received a youth referral order for 12 months.
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Comments(8)
dawind
says...
3:15pm Mon 11 Feb 13
NickBrt wrote:What do you mean? Do elaborate.
Note to Caroline : see how drug dealers operate?
leobrighton
says...
4:04pm Mon 11 Feb 13
dawind
says...
6:08pm Mon 11 Feb 13
leobrighton wrote:What on earth do you mean!...Kelly and Mayers are as British as you or I.
A good example of the enrichment to society so often mentioned about immigration.
Rammit
says...
10:25pm Mon 11 Feb 13
VanessaW
says...
10:46pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Dr Pork
says...
9:44am Tue 12 Feb 13
dawind wrote:They must have smuggled themselves into the great nation of Sussex from the People's Republic of London. This kind of thing happens on an almost daily rate, with Victoria station being the jumping-off point of choice. The sooner the borders are closed the better.
leobrighton wrote:What on earth do you mean!...Kelly and Mayers are as British as you or I.
A good example of the enrichment to society so often mentioned about immigration.
Joshiman
says...
12:26pm Tue 12 Feb 13
NickBrt says...
12:16pm Mon 11 Feb 13