Couple jailed after £100,000 drugs haul

Jan 31 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A KIRKLEES man is starting a long jail term after he was convicted of serious drugs offences.

Wasir Hussain’s ex-girlfriend was also imprisoned for the same crimes after police found drugs factories in two homes.

Hussain was arrested after a surveillance operation and cocaine, heroin and cannabis with a street value of more than £100,000 were recovered from the 29-year-old’s home in South View Terrace, Batley Carr.

Drugs were also discovered at his mother’s home in Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, which he was using while she was in hospital.

Leeds Crown Court heard he admitted to police that for around three months he had been producing a kilo of crack cocaine every two weeks using microwaves at the two houses.

He was jailed for 10 years after admitting four charges of conspiracy to supply drugs.

His former girlfriend, 28-year-old Tammy Vinter, of Hollerton Lane in Wakefield, was found guilty by a jury in December of the same charges.

She received a four-and-a-half year jail term.

Sentencing them, Judge Paul Hoffman said Hussain was manufacturing, preparing and dealing drugs on a wholesale basis and a deterrent sentence had to be passed to put others off from doing the same.