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.
9. Daniel Haslam
Pictured is Daniel Haslam, aged 31 at the time of sentencing, of Millhouses Lane, Sheffield, who was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to four years of custody in April after he pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to supply, possessing ecstasy with intent to supply and to possessing cannabis with intent to supply after a police raid at his home. The court heard Haslam had thousands of pounds worth of cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis at his home. Photo: SYP