‘Superman’ drug dealer punched Pc
THIS is the moment a cannabis dealer wearing an inside out Superman onesie punched a police officer as he tried to arrest his older brother.
Officers went to the home of the parents of Rohaid Khan on Richmond Avenue in Accrington to speak to him in connection with suspected cannabis dealing in the town.
Video footage released by Lancashire Police shows Usman Khan, 23, dressed in the onesie arguing with police outside the house before punching PC Paul Wolstenholme as he had hold of Rohaid. Their mother and a female police officer were also present.
The brothers, both of Fountain Street, Accring- ton, pleaded guilty at Burnley Crown Court to two counts of possessing cannabis with intent to supply and one count of being concerned in the supply of cannabis between May and November 2017.
Rohaid, 25, who was in breach of a suspended sentence order for GBH, was jailed for 16 months.
Holland’s Pies worker Usman was given a ninemonth jail sentence, suspended for 18 months with 150 hours unpaid work and a three-month curfew. The court heard Usman pleaded guilty to assault with intention to resist arrest at an earlier magistrates hearing in relation to the onesie incident and was given a fine and a community order.
Prosecutor Paul Brookwell told the court that the brothers ‘were both cannabis dealers with an established customer base’.
Rohaid was stopped on the Black Path in Accrington on August 22, 2017, and found with cannabis, cash and mobile phones.
The phones had more than 500 contacts with dozens of them being sent block advertising messages for cannabis sales.
Rohaid was arrested at his parents home on November 8 and officers found cannabis in the house and a car worth £1,810, the court heard.
In the bedroom of the house where Usman had been staying police found five mobile phones, two mini mobile phones, six knives and a baseball bat.
Mr Brookwell said Usman’s fingerprints were also found on a plastic bag containing some of the drugs and his mobile phones also showed similar ‘dump texts’.
Sentencing, Judge Nicholas Barker said: “You were cannabis dealers, you were willingly doing it, you knew what you were doing and were an active participant in it.”