No mercy from judge as cancer scare drug dealer who stashed heroin in car head rests is jailed
A judge jailed a county lines drug dealer who claims he may have cancer - refusing a plea to delay the sentence until after medical tests.
Mohammed Abid, aged 26, ran the "Alfie" line, peddling crack cocaine and heroin from Birmingham into Oswestry. That was until he was caught red-handed outside One Stop in Cabin Road with more than £1,300 of Class A substances.
Before Shrewsbury Crown Court was told the details of Abid's criminality, his lawyer Akaal Sidhu pleaded with Recorder Jason MacAdam to defer the sentence for more than five weeks so Abid could get medical confirmation whether or not "lesions" on his face and neck were cancerous.
However, Recorder MacAdam said no, citing facts that the case is nearly three years old, Abid left it to "the very last opportunity" to plead guilty, and that the case had been adjourned at his request previously. He also described a previous basis of plea submitted by Abid, which effectively blamed everything on his co-accused and caused further delays in the case going ahead, as "nonsense".
"It has been going on too long now," said Recorder MacAdam, before instructing prosecutor Elizabeth Power to open the case.
