Sheffield Crown Court has heard how many young men and teenagers are becoming involved in drug-dealing involving either class A, B and C drugs including heroin, cocaine, cannabis and other illicit substances.
Judges often make it clear during sentencing hearings that drug dealing leads to many other forms of crime with those becoming dependent on illicit substances resorting to shoplifting, burglary and even robbery to fund their addictions.
Drug addicts often also build up such big debts that they are forced to start dealing drugs on behalf of their suppliers to pay off large sums of owed money.
Cases at Sheffield Crown Court have also revealed the very young age at which offenders are not only being drawn into drug use but are also becoming involved in drug dealing.
5. Thomas Pryor
Pictured is Thomas Pryor, aged 26 at the time of sentencing, of Smelter Wood Court, near Smelter Wood Drive, at Richmond, Sheffield, who was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to three-and-a-half years of custody after he pleaded guilty to: possessing heroin, possessing cannabis and to possessing cocaine with intent to supply; producing class B drug cannabis after 15 plants were found at his home; and to possessing cocaine with intent to supply, possessing heroin with intent to supply, and to simply possessing cannabis. Thomas Pryor was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court in February to three-and-half years of custody. Photo: SYP
6. Awais Ahmed
Pictured is young drug dealer Awais Ahmed `who was jailed after police found the defendant was linked to drugs, a gun and ammunition discovered at a house by officers, according to a Sheffield Crown Court hearing. Ahmed, aged 21 at the time of sentencing in June, 2021, formerly of Empire Road, at Nether Edge, Sheffield, was found guilty of six counts of possession with intent to supply class A and class B drugs at Sheffield Crown Court following a trial. The charges related to heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine and ecstasy. Ahmed was sentenced to 10 years of custody. Photo: SYP
7. Zayn Imaran
Pictured is Zayn Imaran, aged 18, of Bedale Close, at Swallownest, Sheffield, who was sentenced in September at Sheffield Crown Court to 26 months of custody after he pleaded guilty to possessing class A drug cocaine with intent to supply, possessing class A drug heroin with intent to supply and possessing a bladed article in a public place. Photo: SYP
8. Tony Cain
Pictured is Tony Cain, aged 21, of Emerson Crescent, near Sheffield Lane Top, Sheffield, who was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court in September to two years and six months of custody after he pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article in a public place, and to two counts of possessing a class A drug with intent to supply, on Carver Street, Sheffield. The court heard how Cain was caught by a police officer on Carver Street with crack cocaine, heroin and a flick knife. His sentence will run concurrently with a 20 month custodial term which he received in March following a conviction for wounding. Photo: SYP