Isolation has ‘chipped away’ at children
A HUDDERSFIELD drug dealer has been jailed for selling crack cocaine and heroin from his base in a hotel in Scarborough.
Luke Daniel Joseph, 25, previously from Huddersfield and more recently of Westbourne Park, Scarborough, was sentenced at York Crown Court on December 7 after being found guilty of two counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
Joseph was caught selling the drugs from a hotel in Scarborough after staff contacted police. He has been sentenced to four years and four months behind bars.
Joseph first came to North Yorkshire Police’s attention in early 2018 when CCTV operators noticed suspicious activity in King Street Gardens in Scarborough. One of the suspects was Joseph, who was arrested, interviewed and released while officers carried out further enquiries.
A spokesman for the force said: “During the course of the initial investigation, he came to attention of police officers again when police received a report from the management of a local hotel who were concerned that drug dealing was going on in one of their rooms.
“On arrival at the hotel, officers found discarded heroin and crack bundles on the balcony of the room and on the balcony below, worth around £700. Following examination of the drugs, officers found DNA linking Joseph to them and he was arrested again.
“Following analysis of mobile phone
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REPEATED periods of isolation due to coronavirus have ‘chipped away’ at the progress that pupils have been able to make since returning to school in September, Ofsted has warned.
A series of reports from the watchdog suggest that Covidrelated absences have led to pupils losing more learning, with many children thought to be at least six months behind. In just over half of the schools visited, pupils in bubbles were sent home to selfisolate at some point during the term, with more children sent home in secondary schools than primary schools.
In one school, inspectors were told that 588 pupils out of 620 – almost 95 per cent – had at least one Covid-related absence.
On average, the absence was around nine and a half days per pupil. Meanwhile, in another school, every year group had been affected in some way, with sometimes whole year groups being sent home.
The Ofsted report into the impact of the pandemic is based on nearly 2,000 visits to education and social care providers across England during the autumn term.