Eight Years For £5m Heroin Dealer

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.”