Police officers found more than £50,000 in cash in neat elasticated bundles in the boot of a drug dealer’s car, a court heard.

On the same day they also seized more than two kilogrammes of heroin and crack cocaine worth £160,000 from another of Asad Daud’s sports cars.

Richard Gioserano prosecuting told Leeds Crown Court police went to Daud’s home in Cowper Street, Savile Town. Some of his family were present but he was not.

His bedroom was searched and £7,785 in cash was found in boxes and in pockets of his clothing, including £2,445 in a body warmer hanging on the back of the bedroom door.

Outside was an Audi RS3 car and in a bag in the boot was £440 worth of cannabis, nearly half a kilogramme of crack cocaine with a potential street value of £38,225 and 1.68 kilogrammes of heroin.

Mr Gioserano said the heroin was in 17 different packages, several of more than 50% purity and some as high as 67% purity. Some had already been cut into street deals and cutting agents including caffeine and paracetamol were also found.

The estimated street value if the heroin was cut into average deals was £128,500.

The keys to a Ford Sierra Cosworth were recovered from the kitchen and it was in the boot of that car they found three shoe boxes containing bundles totalling £53,535. Each bundle had an elastic band round it and there was even a bag of more elastic bands.

Leeds Crown Court
Leeds Crown Court

They also found an invoice in the car for the purchase of a Honda Jazz which was found parked in a street in the area. A BB pistol with pellets was behind the passenger seat, there were four street wraps of crack cocaine and in the front centre console a dealer list was recovered.

Daud was named on the driver insurance for that vehicle and had recently purchased the Audi paying £15,500 of the price in cash.

The court heard in 2009 Daud was jailed for 16 months for possessing cocaine with intent to supply and in June 2010 he received a three year jail sentence for supplying heroin and crack cocaine making him liable as a three strike offender for a minimum seven years sentence.

Tony Kelbrick representing Daud said given his intellectual level he was obviously not the sole proprietor of the enterprise but was someone who was easily controlled by others.

He came from a good family but had become involved in the abuse of drugs which led on to his involvement in “this vile trade.” He regretted his actions and had become clean of drugs while on remand and had now been recommended in prison to become a mentor for others.

“He knows what’s coming and is determined to make the best of it and come out of prison a wiser person than he went in.”

Daud, 28, admitted possessing cocaine, heroin and cannabis with intent to supply and possessing criminal property.

Jailing him for a total of seven years three months, Judge Guy Kearl QC said: “This was obviously a considerable enterprise and you were dealing in large amounts of cash.”