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Teenage drug dealer sold cocaine outside fish and chip shop

An alert member of the public tipped off a patrolling police officer to a dealer selling drugs outside a chip shop, a court heard.

When police officers attended Harry’s fish and chip shop, in Frodingham Road, Scunthorpe, they found Connor Milton pushing an item down the waistband of his trousers. At Grimsby Crown Court, Milton, 19, of no fixed address, admitted being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine on April 18 this year.

Prosecuting, Natalie Dean told the court Milton had been sentenced to 24 months in prison for possession of a machete in May last year and a further offence of being involved in the supply of cocaine in June last year. The prison sentence was suspended by Judge Mark Bury in November last year.

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The offence committed in Scunthorpe in April put the defendant in breach of that suspended sentence, told Miss Dean. She said PC Watson was on patrol in Frodingham Road when a member of the public brought it to the attention of the officer that a man was selling drugs outside a fish and chip shop.

Milton was known to the officer. When police attended they saw Milton eating a pie inside the shop. He dropped it and immediately put a black cylinder item down the waistband of his trousers.

Miss Dean said the defendant was searched and found with between 25 to 30 foil wraps and £88.50 in cash. It was later identified as crack cocaine.

For Milton, Ian Haywood said his client was vulnerable and had been exploited. He also highlighted his client’s immaturity. He said Milton had been homeless since 2018 after leaving the family home. “I have not read a more tragic outline of a young man before. You tend to find people gravitate to those who would exploit young people.”

Judge Richard Woolfall said a lot of people were doing their best to help the defendant but he was not taking up that support.

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He said he acknowledged the “great deal of difficulties” the immature young man had faced. But he warned him: “You could end up serving a life sentence in prison in instalments.” He said people who are exploited to deal in drugs have a choice to tell police.

“Class A drugs destroy people’s lives. They have a devastating impact on communities with people who are addicted and those committing crime to fund their addiction,” told the judge. He activated the two-year suspended sentence in a Young Offender Institution and added a further 12 months for the drugs offence.

The judge ordered the money seized in the arrest to be given to Humberside Police to buy equipment. “They can buy battering rams in their fight against crime,” said Judge Woolfall.

Original artice: https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe

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