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A SELF-CONFESSED teenage drug dealer moved from the violent underworld of London to Goole and was caught red handed with highly-addictive crack cocaine and heroin hidden in dealer bags under the seat of his car.
Emmanuel Fadairo (19) was this week (Monday April 16) locked up for three years and warned his next drugs conviction would put him behind bars for seven years.
Mr Fadairo, who has temporary addresses at Papermill Road in Rawcliffe Bridge, and in Hackney, revealed he was regularly the subject of beatings in his business from dealers. He said he faced intimidation, interrogation, threats and violence. A judge described his world as vile.
Mr Fadairo said his girlfriend had a knife put to her throat, he was beaten with crash helmets and slashed with a pen-knife and attacked in his own mother's Hackney home.
Mr Fadairo claimed he was the subject of attacks after causing £3,500-worth of damage to a car belonging to a well-known 'face' in Hackney and was hunted down when he was spotted in Doncaster and his name relayed to old associates by mobile phone. He described his own appearance in Doncaster as 'a rare black face' in town.
Mr Fadairo pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply and one charge of driving while disqualified.
Prosecutor barrister David Bradshaw said Mr Fadairo was stopped as a disqualified driver by the police in Goole on December 12 and found with 18 wraps of crack cocaine and 20 wraps of heroin, worth around £400. When he was interviewed he lied to police, denying all knowledge. The court heard that he was immersed in the London drug culture after becoming an addict and was sent to a Young Offenders' Institution for two years at Maidstone Crown Court in 2005 for supplying drugs.
Mr Fadairo told the court when he was released that he was wrongly suspected of being a 'grass' and was quizzed by former dealers about how and why he had been caught.
He said: "When I couldn't pay money they beat me. They supplied drugs in different places where it is more profitable to them - out of town.
"I moved up to Doncaster. I thought I was out of their way," he added. Mr Fadairo said the dealers tracked him down and put pressure on him to supply. He admitted that at the time of his Goole arrest he was 'couriering'. He said he was the subject of threats to his life and his family.
Defence barrister Bernard Gateshill said Mr Fadairo was coerced and bullied short of duress and fled to his girlfriend's house in Doncaster before he was caught moving the drugs around in Goole.
Passing a three-year sentence Judge Tom Cracknell ordered Mr Fadairo to stand as he told him: "The next time you get caught, if there is a next time, it will be seven years. I am not sure if you have been the subject of violence.
"It takes a lot of swallowing that here you are coming from Hackney to Doncaster into the middle of an area rife with drugs. Of all the places you have to come, it is one with a serious problem with crack cocaine.
"In the murky, unpleasant underworld of drug dealers people get beaten up for all sorts of reasons. It is a vile world.
"Here you are in Goole peddling this stuff about. You are not yet 20 and you have got two convictions for drugs. Those who are convicted of peddling this sort of muck will get substantial sentences."
Judge Cracknell told Mr Fadairo he would face stark choices when he is released from the Young Offenders' Institution. He could either turn back to crime, or move on with his girlfriend who, if she loved him, would follow him to a town where his face would not be known.
He ordered that Mr Fadairo should be given a three-year sentence for the drugs offences and a four-month concurrent sentence for driving while disqualified.
He was also banned from driving for 12 months.
Published on 19th April 2007 in News.
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