Sheffield drug dealer brought back to court for cannabis bust
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Luke Padley received five years and three months for selling and transporting crack cocaine, heroin and cannabis across the city, between 2015 and 2017, on January 3, after a lengthy police investigation.
Prosecutor Louise Gallagher told Sheffield Crown Court on Friday, how police raided two neighbouring houses on South View Road, Netheredge, on September 24, 2018.
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Hide AdPadley was found in bed in one house, with two bags of cannabis, scales and keys to the house next door, where 16 cannabis plants were discovered.
The plants, which were three or four weeks from maturity, would have yielded 1.68 kilos of the class B drug, but delays meant he wasn't sentenced for it in January.
Ayman Khokar, mitigating, said: "It was regrettable the case had been brought to court after he was sentenced in January for similar, but much more serious, offences.
Had it been before the judge on the last occasion, he said, any sentence would have been a "mere matter of months."
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Hide AdPadley, 29, currently of HMP Doncaster, pleaded guilty to production of cannabis.
The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC, said if the case had been heard in January, Padley would have received five and a half years.
On Friday, he added an extra three months so Padley will serve the equivalent sentence.
"If I had a free hand in this case I would have imposed a sentence of 12 months," he said.