Woman let dealer sell drugs from her home

A WOMAN ended up in court after she was involved in deliveries of illegal drugs and allowed a dealer to use her home.

But it all came to an end when police raided Nadine Teft’s property and the dealer was caught trying to flush drugs down her toilet.

Teft, of St Mary’s Gardens, Newark, was on the phone when officers arrived at 9.30am on January 24 last year. She went on to plead guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine and heroin.

Nottingham Crown Court heard 32 wraps of heroin and 25 wraps of crack cocaine, with a street value of £600, were recovered from the toilet basin. A further wrap of each drug was found in the lounge.

Analysis of her phone revealed she was involved in some deliveries of controlled drugs. The man who had tried to flush the drugs down the toilet had his phone seized and messages confirmed that he was dealing from her address.

There was “some support on his phone for the suggestion her payment for facilitating his dealing was nine wraps of heroin or crack cocaine per day,” said Alan Murphy, prosecuting.

“He was prosecuted for possession with intent to supply and he pleaded guilty and received three years and three months last year in that prosecution.”

Graham Heathcote, mitigating, said Teft, 36, “comes from a good family” and has six GCSES and her ambition was to go into childcare. There had been obstacles because of the advanced DBS check. The court heard she had a previous matter on her record for possessing two tablets of ecstasy at a Newark nightclub in 2003.

Judge James Sampson told her: “Class A drugs blight lives. They cause crime. They destroy families. Should you be convicted again of a Class A supply offence, the minimum sentence will be seven years imprisonment.”

Teft received 16 months in prison, suspended for two years, and ten rehabilitation activity requirement sessions.