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UK: 'Spicy jerk chicken and a bag of weed'

ic South London

Tuesday 11 Nov 2003

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A CAFE owner was caught with hundreds of pounds worth of cannabis stashed
under his floorboards, a court heard.

Customers at Errol Anderson's Green Leaf Cafe in Landor Road, Brixton,
could pick up peppery patties and spicy jerk chicken along with a bag of
cannabis, it is claimed.

The 47-year-old is said to have pocketed hundreds of thousands of pounds
selling the drug to special customers out of a back room dance hall on the
premises.

And when the cafe was raided by police, more than two kilos of cannabis
were found in deal bags.

PC Matthew Hardcastle turned up dressed in full riot gear along with other
officers on April 10 last year.

He told Inner London Crown Court: "In the second room under the floor
boards I found an envelope containing a quantity of cannabis."

The find was passed to a forensic scientist and weighed 48.6g.

Anderson was arrested after more than two kilos of cannabis were also
allegedly found in small bags in the cafe's back room.

He was released on bail, but is said to have returned to drug dealing
almost immediately.

The court heard that between April 2002 and January this year, when
Anderson was arrested, about UKP230,000 was credited to a bank account he
shared with his wife, Audriana Witter, 49.

Anderson and Witter, of Ribblesdale Road, Streatham, both deny one charge
of conspiring to contravene the drug trafficking act.

Estate agent Gassell Gordon, 55, of Canonbury Road, Forest Hill, who
allegedly helped the pair hide the proceeds of their drug sales through
property, also denies one charge of conspiring to contravene the drug
trafficking act.

Witter denied a further eight charges of concealing or transferring the
proceeds of drug trafficking.

Anderson further denies 10 charges of concealing or transferring the
proceeds of drug trafficking, three charges of possessing a class B drug
with intent and one charge of permitting premises to be used for the supply
of a class B drug.

The trial continues.

 

 

 

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