Pair jailed for drug dealing
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| Nicholas Hardy |
JAIL sentences totalling more than ten years have been passed on a couple following an early morning police raid on a Southampton house.
Nicholas Hardy, who opened the front door, led officers to a bedroom where Emma Lyons tried to swallow a small amount of crack cocaine. She also had a syringe containing heroin hidden between her buttocks.
Prosecutor David Jenkins said that on a bedroom shelf next to Hardy's methadone bottle, police seized a sweet tin containing 64 wraps of crack cocaine and 51 wraps of heroin, together valued at about £2,800.
A deals list was found in Lyons' bag which indicated they were selling drugs and keeping some to fund their own habit.
In interview, both tried to take the blame, Mr Jenkins added.
Hardy, 38, and Lyons, 30, of Stanton Road, Southampton, denied possessing class A drugs with intent to supply, but were convicted. Neither gave evidence during their trial at the city crown court.
Hardy was jailed for six years and Lyons for four-and-a-half years.
She had admitted the offences when she appeared at the magistrates' court but had been allowed to change her plea at the crown court before her trial.
7:14pm Sunday 11th May 2008
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