Ryan Crook, 33, had been a class A drug user for 10 years before falling into £900 debt with his dealer and being forced to sell drugs to pay it off, Basildon Crown Court heard on Wednesday.
After working off the debt, Crook was threatened by the dealer he worked for and told to continue selling drugs. He was arrested on the afternoon of October 21, 2022, when officers from Essex Police’s operation raptor teams caught him make a sale red-handed while on patrol in Southend.
Nice! Bang to rights, and no escaping!
In her sentencing remarks, Judge Samantha Cohen...Oh, wait.
...said: “You had been a class A drug user for 10 years and you ran up a debt of about £900 which you then repaid by working for your dealer.
“Once that debt was expunged you were then threatened that ‘your life would be made hell’ if you did not continue dealing.
“That pressure meant that, instead of going to the police, you carried on dealing.”
And you believed that, Samantha? Of course you did.
Crook, of Archer Close, Southend, who had pleaded guilty to possessing a controlled drug of class A with intent and possessing criminal property at an earlier hearing, was handed a two-year sentence suspended for two years. He was also ordered to undertake 250 hours of unpaid work.
*sighs*
Maximum nominative determinism!!
ReplyDeleteSo what work can he do? Sell drugs, of course. Unpaid.
ReplyDeleteHe could have become a police informer and earned money that way!
ReplyDeleteIf I had a pound for every time I’d heard the “drug dealer debt made me do it “, I’d have £12
ReplyDeleteJaded
"Maximum nominative determinism!!"
ReplyDeleteIndeed!
"He could have become a police informer and earned money that way!"
😏