Sheffield drug dealer cuckooed “vulnerable” man with machete - forcing him out of bedroom to sleep on "chair"
The victim was so afraid of the man who had taken over his fllat, he slept rough to avoid him
A Sheffield drug dealer with a machete cuckooed a “vulnerable” man’s flat - “setting up shop” in his home and forcing the schizophrenic out of his own bedroom.
Bryan Nyoni, aged 25, sold crack and heroin from the home of the recovering drug addict and alcoholic - who he did not know but had “selected” due to his “vulnerabilities” - for a month between April and May last year.
Sheffield Crown Court heard a stash of drug-dealing wraps consisting entirely of bicarbonate of soda were found at the address during a raid.
In early April 2025, Nyoni walked into the complainant’s flat “armed with a machete”, offering him drugs which the now-clean addict “didn’t accept”.
The court heard the complainant - who also suffered with PTSD - was “very frightened” of Nyoni and would often “sleep rough” however he finally went to police a month after the defendant’s arrival.
Addressing Nyoni, Recorder Helen Chapman told him: “You literally set up shop in his flat and forced him out of his own bedroom and slept in his bed, leaving him to sleep in a chair in the living room.
“That was at least when you did allow him to sleep. Oftentimes you wouldn’t allow him to sleep. You would repeatedly wake him up and at other times you would tell him to sit there and not speak.
“It’s plain that he was very frightened of you. He told the police he didn’t want to be cut up by you or by others that you had invited into his flat to socialise, take drug and sell drugs.
“You made his flat such a hostile environment that he would often go and sleep rough on the streets while you dealt drugs from his home.
“You exposed this vulnerable man to the danger of rough sleeping and he would only come back if he was too tired or simply too cold.”
By the beginning of May the complainant was “so desperate” that he finally went to the police about Nyoni, the court heard.
When officers raided the address no drugs were found but the defendant was told to leave.
However a week later they arrested Nyoni back at the address again and found 2.6 grams of cocaine in a saucepan, dealer slips bearing the name “Turbo” and evidence of broadcast messages on a phone reading “active”.
In mitigation, the court heard Nyoni had had been diagnosed with “complex” mental illnesses and was not at the top of the supply chain - himself receiving crack and heroin from a supplier at the address.
Nyoni, formerly of Basegreen Road, Sheffield, had one former conviction for aggravated arson as a youth, the court heard.
He admitted being concerned in supply of crack and heroin and harassment with fear of violence.
He was jailed for three years and 10 months and handed a seven-year restraining order.