Heroin ‘bagger’ locked up

A 28-year-old man has been jailed after heroin with a street value of almost £9,000 was found in a raid.

Toseef Ahmed, of Bath Street, Werneth, had pleaded guilty to procession of heroin with intent to supply at an earlier hearing. He was jailed for 28 months yesterday at Manchester Crown Court.

The court was told Ahmed had worked since the age of 19 to help support his mother and sister since the death of his father, 10 years ago.

Richard Veni, defending, said he had started taking heroin recreationally and added: “He wasn’t selling it. His role was bagging it.” But Judge Bernard Lever said that Ahmed was part of a “production line dealing significantly with heroin.”