Details of the violent Bradford drug dealer will be asked in court

The court heard from a Bradford man who was caught selling heroin and cocaine from his car.

Asim Mahmud, who lives outside Thornton Road, told Bradford Crown Court that he is scared of dealers to identify him to police, but he said he was a “influencer around Bradford” who smashes windows and houses and places people in the hospital.

Just as the court heard of people from the underworld who damaged Bradford properties, file photos of the shattered windows (image: T&A) He said “there was no choice,” but to reluctantly agree to deal with drugs to pay off his £1,500 cocaine debt, the dealer said, “You know what's going to happen.

Mahmoud, 35, told the court that he spent between 50 and 70 pounds a day on his addiction.

He was previously jailed in 2017 for a similar drug-related crime.

Prosecutor Zarreen Alam-Cheetham said that Mahmood was found by police before 10pm on December 15, 2021 and he drove Vauxhall Corsa.

When they saw the woman enter the passenger seat and then leave, they suspected that a drug deal had been made.

A police pursuit was then carried out, resulting in Mahmoud being charged with dangerous driving in 2022, sentenced to 10 months in prison.

His car stopped naturally after the collision and Mahmoud was arrested at the scene. He admitted he had drugs, and the search revealed 25 raps of cocaine and heroin, three mobile phones and £235 in cash.

In a police interview, he responded to all questions with “no comments.”

Mahmud told the court that he was a heavy user of cocaine when he was unemployed and claiming universal credit.

He states: “I was on cocaine for a long time. I used it every day, and that was when I drove drug debt.”

He said he was told to resolve it by the dealer who had verbally posed a face-to-face threat to him and his family.

Faced with such pressure, Mahmoud said he reluctantly agreed to supply the drug because he was “scary.”

He said he was drug clean and acted as a full-time caregiver for his parents since leaving prison after a certainty of dangerous driving.

Miss Alam Cheesam said the reason Mahmoud refused to give police codes to his three phones was because they contained guilty text messages regarding his drug deal

She said he failed to tell police that he was under pressure to sell drugs and was reluctant to do so.

Mahmoud repeated that he was scared.

Shufqat Khan, relaxed for Mahmood, said he was “struggling with addiction” and repented his actions, especially because of the impact he had on others.

He described him as the “black sheep” of his family, but he said he made a difference in his life and effectively rehabilitated himself by removing the drugs.

His honorary judge, Jonathan Gibson, sentenced Asim Mahmood to two years in prison and suspended for two years at Bradford Crown Court, said:

“Many times, people who trade on the street level are in positions doing it on behalf of others, and are at a lower step on the ladder than those who are giving them the medications they take.

“You've not been in trouble for the past three years. You look calm. You're trying to keep your drug deal behind you and live a life of law.”

Mahmood was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work, take on 10 rehabilitation activity requirements dates and be subject to trail monitoring for six months.

Judge Gibson ordered the confiscated and destruction of the seized drugs, as well as the cash confiscation.