Child rapist was a drugs supplier
SEARCH OF HOME BY POLICE LED TO PAIR’S CONVICTION
A CHILD rapist jailed for 24 years has had his sentence extended for warehousing large amounts of cocaine and heroin.
David Dibell was given the lengthy sentence in February this year for sex offences against a young girl. Now he and Daniel Walmsley have both been jailed for drugs offences.
Newcastle Crown Court heard police executed a search warrant at Walmsley’s home at St Andrew’s Drive, Washington, on May 2 2019, when David Dibell’s Vauxhall van was parked on the drive. Neither of them was present but a police search recovered a number of incriminating items.
In a bedroom, there were class-c tablets, a phone and cash, while in the kitchen there was money and a tin containing 18g of MDMA mixed with cocaine, worth up to £1,800. There were also scales and a cup with traces of powder and a total of £15,485 in cash.
In Dibell’s van, here was 852g of 77% pure cocaine, worth up to £42,000 and 1,816g of heroin, worth up to £43,000 or much more if cut into smaller deals. The phone found in Walmsley’s bedroom showed messages from 2018 indicating he was involved in supplying cocaine and he made reference to the drugs being “lethal”.
Walmsley, 31, of Weardale House, Washington, who has 64 previous convictions, pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to supply cocaine and possessing MDMA, while Dibell, 28, of no fixed address but formerly of Washington, who has 12 previous convictions, admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin. Dibell pleaded guilty on the basis he was warehousing the drugs for someone else in order to raise money for family court proceedings.
Walmsley was jailed for three years and nine months, while Dibell got two years and eight months, consecutive to the 24-year sentence he is currently serving for child sex offences.
David Lamb QC, for Walmsley, said he pleaded guilty at the first opportunity. Gavin Doig, for Dibell, said he had previously worked hard as a joiner.