A DRUG dealer shot and buried on a remote farm was known as an “enforcer”, a court was told.

David Griffiths was a man with a “reputation for fighting” – and a man who threatened to kill another drug dealer and members of his family over a debt of just £3,000, a jury heard.

Griffiths, 35, who died along with fellow hardman Brett Flournoy, 31, in Cornwall last June may also have been in debt himself to “travellers” for as much as £30,000, Truro Crown Court was told.

Details of his hardman past came out in the trial of a Huddersfield man.

Thomas Haigh, formerly of Denby Dale, and Ross Stone are accused of killing Griffiths and Flournoy.

The jury has previously heard that Stone owed the pair between £30,000 and £40,000 after drugs he brought from them were stolen from his farm.

The third day of the trial also heard from Richard Hawke, who admitted selling cocaine brought from Griffiths, who was operating from a house in his native Plymouth.

He told the court Griffiths had threatened him after he got into arrears, and had to be bailed out by Stone, who arranged for a fresh consignment of cocaine to be delivered to allow him to sell it and pay off his debt.

“He (Griffiths) rang me himself and said he was going to pay a visit to me or my house,” he told the court.

“I took it as if he was going to get physical with me or someone in my family.”

“I was frightened for my life and my family’s.”