Llandudno,North Wales - Couple jailed for five years each after supplying drugs

Published date: 04 December 2015 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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A Liverpool man who ferried heroin and crack cocaine into North Wales, on an almost daily basis, has been jailed for six years today (Friday, December 4).

A Llandudno couple who then supplied the dangerous drugs on were each jailed for five years.

Peter Blackhall, 33, of Rough Wood, Kirby, admitted conspiring to supply the drugs between June 14 and June 26 last year.

Lee deacon, 42, and Lisa Moody, 42, both of Woodlands, Llandudno Junction, denied conspiring to supply the drugs but were convicted at an earlier hearing.

Mold Crown Court heard how on June 25, Blackhall had been stopped by police on The Rhuallt Hill and had with him 100 packages of crack cocaine valued at £950 and 100 packages of heroin valued at £1,500.

Prosecutor Simon Mills said that the drugs were clearly destined for supply in the Llandudno area as part of the conspiracy.

ANPR evidence showed that he was a frequent visitor to North Wales and cell site evidence showed that he would be in mobile phone contact with Moody.

It was the prosecution case that he was making regular if not daily trips, said Mr Mills.

Further drugs were found at the home of the defendants Deacon and Moody – some of which were buried in the garden – and cash was found hidden in a tea-pot.

Deacon claimed that the £1,300 or so seized by the police came from the sale of a car.

Mr Recorder Nicholas Jones, who sentenced via a live television link from Cardiff Crown Court, said that Blackhall could have expected a nine year sentence if he had been convicted after trial.

When he was stopped in his car at Rhuallt Hill he had drugs valued at just under £2,500 and he had no doubt that the ten or 12 other journeys he had made in hire cars involved similar amounts.

Blackhall was nearer to the source of the drugs and he played a vital role in the commercial delivery of class A drugs on an almost daily basis.

He played a leading role in the conspiracy, he said.

Police had searched the home of the other two defendants and found further drugs, cash and scales.

“I have no doubt that Deacon and Moody were local suppliers of small amounts from the drugs provided by Blackhall,” he said.

Their respective addictions were their prime motivation for getting involved.

But it was a vital role, he said, because without people who dealt to users, then the original supplied would have no one to supply their drugs to.

A timetable under The Proceeds of Crime Act has been set to see how much drugs profits, if any, can be confiscated.