Couple ran drug dealing business

A Peterborough couple who ran a ‘sophisticated’ drugs business from their city homes have been sentenced at court.

Mohammed Ahmed and girlfriend Helen Sutcliffe were found with drugs, cash and other items when police raided their homes last year.

Ahmed was jailed at a hearingatCambridgeCrownCourt on March 3. Sutcliffe was given a suspended prison sentence earlier this year.

Following the hearing, Det Con Jacob Reeves, who investigated, spoke of the ‘misery’ drug dealing brings to the city, and said: “This drug dealing duo were running a sophisticated criminal enterprise supplying class A drugs throughout Cambridgeshire and the surrounding area.”

The court heard that police raided the home of Ahmed in Cottonwood Drive on 21 September and found £5,000 stashed in his wardrobe and threemobilephonesinhisbed.

In his vehicle they also found another £200 in cash and wraps of cocaine in the driver’s door and in the sunglasses holder.

At the same time officers also searched the home of Sutcliffe,inGloverDriveandfound further wraps of cocaine, edible cannabis and a drug debt and delivery list.

Ahmed (25) was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of class A drugs and possession of criminal property.

Sutcliffe, (40), was sentenced on 11 January to 18 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, after pleading guiltytobeingconcernedinthe supply of class A drugs.

TheraidswerepartofOperationHypernova,acrackdown on exploitation and illegal drugs in Cambridgeshire.

Mohammed Ahmed