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Plymouth drug dealers caught with £50k stash face prison

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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
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TWO men who plotted together to deal drugs worth nearly £50,000 from a garage are facing long jail sentences.

Father-of six Wayne Sandercock and Simon Payne were part of a major ring supplying cocaine and amphetamine from a lock-up in Whitleigh, Plymouth Crown Court heard.

  1. some of the drugs found in the lock-up

    Some of the drugs found in the lock-up

  2. Wayne Sandercock and, left, some of the drugs found in the lock-up

    Wayne Sandercock

Police found drugs, a stun gun and an extendable baton when they raided the garage rented by 38-year-old Sandercock in Taunton Avenue in May 2010.

They seized 836 grams of cocaine worth about £33,500 and 1.6 kilograms of amphetamine worth £16,000.

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Sandercock, of Southway Drive, admitted conspiracy to supply Class A and Class B drugs between December 2009 and May 2010.

He pleaded guilty at the start of a scheduled two-week trial, after a judge gave him an indication of a maximum sentence of nine years in jail if he changed his plea.

A jury formally returned guilty verdicts at the direction of judge Paul Darlow.

Payne, 38, of Fountains Crescent, Pennycross, had earlier pleaded guilty to the same joint charges. He is also facing a prison term when the pair are sentenced on Monday November 19.

Police greeted Sandercock's change of plea after the case.

Investigating officer Det Con Ken Ord said: "I am very pleased. This has brought to an end an investigation into a group of people involved in the substantial dealing of drugs in Plymouth. It is a good result.

"It is not very often you seize almost a kilogram of cocaine and nearly two kilograms of amphetamine."

Mary McCarthy, for the Crown Prosecution Service, told the court Sandercock had played a "leading role" in the operation.

She added: "Payne was a risk-taker, moving drugs from place to place."

A previous trial involving Sandercock in September last year, which was eventually abandoned, heard police had begun surveillance of Payne in December 2009.

Officers watched Payne making several visits to a garage which was rented by Sandercock.

Police raided the garage and the pair's homes on May 26 2010.

They found the drugs in a locked yellow metal toolbox bolted to the floor of the lock-up, the jury heard.

Officers also seized a set of scales, knives, packaging, rubber gloves, a stun gun, and a police extendable baton.

Payne's fingerprints were on some of the plastic wrapping, while Sandercock's left thumbprint was on a strip of wire ties on the floor near the toolbox.

Officers found Sandercock's home contained seven mobile phones and £2,000 cash in a tin in the kitchen, though he was unemployed at the time, the original trial was told.

Police are to launch legal action to seize that money and any other assets as the proceeds of crime.

DC Ord, speaking after the case, added police believed the drugs were being mixed with a cutting agent in the garage.

He said the drugs were not yet divided into smaller street deals.

Sandercock and Payne have been released on bail until they are sentenced. Sandercock must report daily to a police station.

Judge Darlow, addressing Sandercock's barrister, Nick Lewin, said: "I grant your client bail but he must understand there is one outcome and one outcome only."

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  • Profile image for shamomf01

    by shamomf01

    Wednesday, November 07 2012, 2:01PM

    “robocop sucks on blotting paper and dances around mushrooms with the back cut out of his leather shorts with the fairys.”

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    by trudie2010

    Wednesday, November 07 2012, 1:46PM

    “I think robocop1982 has been partaking in some illegal substance himself, and if not, then go and suck some blotting paper!!!!! Idiot.”

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    by shamomf01

    Wednesday, November 07 2012, 12:48PM

    “sandercock has always been a halfwit, do your time son”

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    by Felchus

    Wednesday, November 07 2012, 12:20PM

    “Robocop-were you wearing a foil hat when you posted?. Very ill informed post-reads like a statement a local american cop may say in San Francisco in 1967 when talking to parents about Evil Pushers. It is views like this that mean that children grow up never being educated properly about drugs and their effects. They receive scare stories, some of which are almost mediaeval, and usually delivered by people who smoke and drink alcohol , that do not hold water when they experiment.

    People do not purposely poison illicit drugs-no more than a burger bar would put anthrax in their burgers-as it is bad for business. Cyanide is more difficult to obtain than LSD-why would someone go to those lengths to harm others?. A few weeks ago a young woman needed life changing surgery after consuming a cocktail on licensed premises containing liquid nitrogen. Perfectly legal-apparently- would the licensee come under your heading of Evil?.

    Illicit drugs do occasionally become contaminated, but some argue this is because their illegality forces the production into criminal enterprise-somewhere Health and Safety is less of a consideration, but it beggars belief that people would deliberately poison drugs-why kill your customers? Not the best business plan.

    So, Robocop, today, you can smoke your fags, go to the pub for a drink, and take the average of three medicines from your Doctor, safe in the knowledge that the people who use drugs that are not subject to taxation will have to wander a nether world of danger in order to derive some pleasure from their drug of choice. This satisfaction you draw, however, is costing us all trillions, criminalising otherwise law abiding people, filling prisons, and keeping swathes of working class youth from reaching their potential.

    cheerio.”

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    by robocop1982

    Wednesday, November 07 2012, 11:29AM

    “One of the most dangerous drugs which the police might not realize is lsd for varying reasons. Its not just the fact there can be mental dangers from taking lsd but blotting paper can absorb all sorts of potentially lethal or harmful chemicals which could make the subject who unfortunately takes them the worst possible mental torture you can imagine. SOme people would not be the wiser that they had ingested tabs of blotting paper which could of been soaked in all kinds of nasty chemicals. ITs the most dangerous of all. Evil scumbags would not think twice about putting dangerous chemicals on highly absorbant blotting paper. fbi have done tests which shows blotting paper can absorb enough chemicals to kill a subject. SUpposing some evil scumbag decides to soak it in cyanide. kids don't understand the risks of blotting paper. very often it isn't even lsd but some kind of chemicals to simply make maximum profit. LSd is very expensive to produce and often scumbags will just soak blotting paper in the cheapest chemicals they get there hands on. The police don't understand the dangers of blotting paper”

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    by MonkeyMagic

    Wednesday, November 07 2012, 11:09AM

    “Yep - £30,000 a year cost for a couple of years each and who knows how much benefits to the 6 kids and family. Makes you wish we had Islam laws and we could just stone them.”

  • Profile image for trudie2010

    by trudie2010

    Wednesday, November 07 2012, 9:57AM

    “That's another pair of filthy scumbags stopped for a while. Good job done by the police.”

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