matt1889
21-09-2005, 11:17
Whats your opinion on this one then peeps???????????
Terence Fletcher ran a "one stop shop" for party drugs from his home - while his heroin addict son was in jail.
When he was arrested, Fletcher claimed he was forced to store drugs for a mystery gang who had threatened to harm his son.
But after hearing his story, a judge branded Fletcher's account an "incredible" lie and jailed him for four years.
Sheffield Crown Court heard that the 52-year-old was caught in a police swoop outside his workplace on Abbeydale Road in February.
Fletcher was carrying £7,500 in cash, cocaine worth £800, Ecstasy, amphetamines and electronic scales and a CS gas spray.
Back at his home on Gresley Road, in Low Edges, police found another CS gas canister and a Taser stun gun.
Andrew Hatton, prosecuting, said: "Detectives also uncovered cannabis with a street value of up to £13,000."
Fletcher pleaded guilty to possessing Class A, B and C drugs and three counts of possessing an illegal weapon.
But a trial of issue was held into Fletcher's "fanciful" claims.
He alleged that a gang had made him keep the drugs at his home and the Abbey Friar chip shop, where he worked peeling potatoes.
Fletcher, who has six children, said the thugs had threatened to get his son Paul hooked back on heroin on his release from prison.
Bursting into tears in court, Fletcher said: "I didn't tell anyone because I was frightened. Paul was a drug addict when he went in jail, he weighed eight stone.
"He was back on track, playing football and weighed 14 stone.
"The gang said 'We can make sure he gets back on drugs when he's let out, we can make sure he goes back to prison.'"
Fletcher was arrested three days before his son Paul Fletcher was released from a six year jail sentence for robbery.
Terence Fletcher ran a "one stop shop" for party drugs from his home - while his heroin addict son was in jail.
When he was arrested, Fletcher claimed he was forced to store drugs for a mystery gang who had threatened to harm his son.
But after hearing his story, a judge branded Fletcher's account an "incredible" lie and jailed him for four years.
Sheffield Crown Court heard that the 52-year-old was caught in a police swoop outside his workplace on Abbeydale Road in February.
Fletcher was carrying £7,500 in cash, cocaine worth £800, Ecstasy, amphetamines and electronic scales and a CS gas spray.
Back at his home on Gresley Road, in Low Edges, police found another CS gas canister and a Taser stun gun.
Andrew Hatton, prosecuting, said: "Detectives also uncovered cannabis with a street value of up to £13,000."
Fletcher pleaded guilty to possessing Class A, B and C drugs and three counts of possessing an illegal weapon.
But a trial of issue was held into Fletcher's "fanciful" claims.
He alleged that a gang had made him keep the drugs at his home and the Abbey Friar chip shop, where he worked peeling potatoes.
Fletcher, who has six children, said the thugs had threatened to get his son Paul hooked back on heroin on his release from prison.
Bursting into tears in court, Fletcher said: "I didn't tell anyone because I was frightened. Paul was a drug addict when he went in jail, he weighed eight stone.
"He was back on track, playing football and weighed 14 stone.
"The gang said 'We can make sure he gets back on drugs when he's let out, we can make sure he goes back to prison.'"
Fletcher was arrested three days before his son Paul Fletcher was released from a six year jail sentence for robbery.