Drug Dealer Locked-Up For Third Conviction

An Islington drug dealer is behind bars after police caught him on the street with crack and heroin for sale. 

Sonny Doyle, 25, clocked-up his third drug-dealing conviction when he pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court.

He admitted two counts of possessing Class A drugs, with intent to supply, and was sent to Snaresbrook Crown Court, where he received five years and eight months imprisonment.

The court heard he had two previous convictions for possession, with intent to supply, Class A drugs in 2016 and in 2018.

On Tuesday, January 12, officers were called to Cantelowes Gardens, off Camden Road to reports of an altercation involving a group of males. 

Local officers attended and saw Doyle run from police. 

They gave chase on foot and detained him nearby. 

He was found to be in possession of ten rocks of heroin and three rocks of crack cocaine.

Superintendent Elaina Usher, from the Metropolitan Police's Central North Neighbourhoods Unit, said: “Under new legislation (Section 313 of the Sentencing Act 2020) defendants who are convicted on three occasions of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply, will face a minimum sentence of seven years’ imprisonment. 

In this case that was reduced slightly due to an early guilty plea.

“This should act as a major warning to those who inflict misery on our communities by dealing drugs. 

“You will be caught and you will spend a significant time in prison.

“I want to reassure those living or working in Camden and Islington that officers from the Met’s Central North BCU are always looking at ways to tackle drugs offending in our two boroughs.”