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UK: Drug gunman's sentence cut

Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Tuesday 14 Mar 2006

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A DRUG dealer who burst into a house filled with cannabis plants and
blasted a man with a shotgun has won a cut in his 14-year jail term.

Balkar Singh, 27, of Scotgate Road, Honley, Huddersfield, was jailed at
Bradford Crown Court in November last year after he pleaded guilty to
charges of conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine, having an
offensive weapon, unlawful wounding and burglary.

But Lady Justice Smith, sitting with Mr Justice Butterfield and Mr
Justice Hedley at the Appeal Court in London, today cut Singh's sentence
to 11 years - ruling the original term was "manifestly excessive".

The judge said Singh had first been arrested in November 2004 when a
known drug dealer was seen entering his car.

Two vehicles were then searched and Singh's car was found to contain 218
grams of heroin - worth £11,500 - and 16 grams of crack cocaine, with an
estimated street value of £1,500.

 

 

 

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