A
female drug dealer, caught with £5m worth of heroin after police
stopped the mini-cab she was travelling in and searched her east
London home, has been jailed.
Sibela
Ahmed, 29, of High Road, Ilford, is starting an eight-year prison
sentence after being caught by the Metropolitan Police's East Area
Proactive Team.
She
pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court to possessing, with intent
to supply, 51 kilograms of heroin.
Ahmed
was arrested in Meath Road, Ilford on December 7, last year after the
traffic stop.
She
was sitting on the back seat and in the foot well by her feet was a
plastic bag containing approximately five kilograms of heroin.
Officers
carried out a search at her home address and found a further 46
kilograms of heroin hidden under her bed and in a suitcase.
Detective
Constable Kevin Rowley, of the East Area Proactive Team, said: “I
am very happy with today’s result.
“Over
fifty-one kilos of heroin has been removed from London’s streets
which will no doubt save plenty of lives and help eradicate an issue
which has blighted not just London, but the rest of the UK.
“I
have no doubt that by taking this big a volume of Class A drugs off
the streets, we have severely disrupted an organised crime network
and I hope the public feels reassured that we are doing all that we
can to clamp down on drug dealers.
“Ahmed
was clearly thinking about herself when she agreed to store this
large amount of heroin and now she will be able to spend the next
eight years thinking about the consequences that it has caused her.”
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