Colwyn Bay,North Wales - Drug dealer jailed for three years

Published date: 02 March 2016 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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A Colwyn Bay dad whose girlfriend had begged him to choose a family life instead of drug dealing was jailed for three years.

Nathan Jeavons, aged 22, admitted possessing drugs with intent to supply after police seized cocaine, cannabis, ecstasy, ketamine and another controlled drug which the prosecution alleged were worth £25,000.

Caernarfon crown court heard his partner Lauren Fisher, 21, had texted him a message stating: ”I’m sick of you. You choose drugs and money over spending time with your partner and baby.”

Prosecutor Richard Edwards said Jeavons replied that the supplying was “like an addiction” because it was “easy money.”

Despite asking him to stop, Fisher still helped her boyfriend.

She received a ten months suspended jail term after pleading guilty to possessing cannabis with intent to supply, and programme and rehabilitation requirements were imposed.

Mr Edwards said the couple had a flat in Cwrt Elim, Colwyn Bay. Last July police searched their home and that of Jeavons’s grandmother in the town’s Erskine Road.

The prosecutor said her grandson indicated the drugs found were nothing to do with her.

Jeavons told police he had got a “good deal” on drugs in Liverpool and bought them to pay a drug debt at Colwyn Bay.

The lawyer added that Jeavons had previously received a suspended sentence after “blatantly offering to supply drugs” at the Wakestock festival in Gwynedd.

Judge David Hale ordered the confiscation of £1,280. But no Proceeds of Crime application was made by the prosecution.

Defence barrister Anna Price said Jeavons became addicted to cannabis and this led to the offences. He no longer used drugs, she said.

Kim Halsall, for Fisher, said she involved herself “stupidly” but regretted it and wanted Jeavons to stop.

Judge Hale told the couple: ”You have been together three or four years. You have a child together and certainly until your arrest last July you were both regularly taking cannabis and both regularly involved in the sale of cannabis.

“I accept Mr Jeavons is by far the most involved.” He had also purchased cocaine to sell and that was a “quantum leap.”

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