Overview
- Police raided a Carden Avenue address on June 12 last year and seized about £10,000 of Class A drugs and roughly £10,000 in cash, along with multiple mobile phones and media files.
- Prosecutors used phone-message analysis, a photograph of Thomas Crombie lying covered in banknotes, and video of Marley Hadfield boasting about sales to link both to supply and to challenge Hadfield’s claim she was coerced.
- The court accepted that both admitted possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply, with Crombie also admitting handling criminal property and possessing cannabis.
- Judge John Thackray KC jailed Crombie for two years and three months and gave Hadfield a two-year suspended sentence with 200 hours of unpaid work, 15 days of rehabilitation and a £187 victims’ surcharge.
- The court ordered £5,000 of the seized cash to be forfeited and donated to the St Paul’s boxing club charity in Hull, a decision that removes funds from the dealers and directs them to a local community project.