Drugs found in new house of dealer

A CONVICTED drug dealer’s Oldham home was used to prepare cocaine and heroin, Manchester crown Court heard.

Police raided the home in Victoria Street five months after Raju Miah had acquired it an seized both drugs and equipment, cutting agents, scales and snap bags. Miah received a two-year jail sentence in 2007 after being convicted of supplying cocaine, but claimed he had known nothing about what was found at his address.

Judge Mushtaq Khokhar told him: “That is absolute rubbish. This was your property and you knew well what was going on. One look in your own kitchen would have told you.”

Miah (28) was told the only reason he was not being immediately sent to prison was because he was a carer for his elderly parents.

Prosecutor Alexander Leach told the court police raided the house on July 15, 2014, when they seized cocaine and heroin worth almost £400.

Miah had pleaded guilty to an offence of permitting his premises to be used for the preparation of drugs, but said he had not been aware of what had been happening, or involved in it.

Hannah Lynch defending, said he had been in the early stages of setting up home there, but had given keys to friends so they could use it. At the time of the raid he was at his parents’ home for Ramadan.

Miah was given an eight month prison sentence suspended for two years, ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work and will have a nightly curfew for three months.