Addict admits delivering drugs worth £60,000 (From Western Telegraph)

Addict admits delivering drugs worth £60,000

A HEROIN ADDICT admitted delivering drugs with a street value of £60,000 to dealers in Haverfordwest, a court heard on Friday.

David Marcus Fitt was found with 62 nine ounce bars of cannabis in the boot of his blue BMW after police stopped him in the towns Foley Way. He was also caught with 252 grammes of cannabis stuffed down his trouser leg, 1.9 grammes of heroin and £890 of cash in his pocket and a further £360 of cash in the glove box of the car.

Prosecutor Iuan Jenkins told Swansea Crown Court how Fitt, aged 34, had admitted owing dealers £20,000, which he accumulated because of his heroin habit.

Fitt had been acting as a courier, to help repay the debt to the dealers, by carrying drugs from Bristol to Haverfordwest.

Fitt was taking them to sell in Haverfordwest. He told police he had already sold four bars of the cannabis to a man for £900 in the town. He told police that had they not seized the cannabis he would have sold it, as well as collecting a £6,100 drug debt.

He has been dealing with drug suppliers, collecting money and dealing in drugs, he said.

Defence lawyer Frank Phillips told the court Fitt did not benefit from the transactions he carried out.

He is a courier with a difference. The drugs were not his, he was transporting them from Bristol to Haverfordwest.

He is a heroin addict and had run up a debt of £20,000 and he was trying to repay the debt.

He is not Mr Big and was someone who was being used. He owes a substantial amount of money and was emotionally and physically hooked. He didnt profit from the drugs, he said.

Judge Gerald Price jailed Fitt, of Sticklepath, Oakhampton, Devon, for two years for the drug offences.