Two drug dealer brothers were caught in the act with a backpack full of business as they stopped in front of a store. Officers began tailing the rental car after they saw it driving erratically through the Swansea community. After the brothers were arrested and their phones checked, it was discovered that even when the officers were following them, they were busy negotiating.

Brian Simpson, the prosecutor, told Swansea Crown Court that at 4.35pm on 26 January this year, police saw a car “driving erratically” on the Townhill Road in Swansea and began to follow it. The police checked the car, it turned out that it was rented. Police followed the car until it stopped outside the Premier store on Pentregetin Road, where the passenger, Daniel Redmore, got out and entered the store.

The court heard that when police approached the parked car, a strong smell of marijuana was coming from inside. When police asked the driver, Jonathan Redmore, if he had something in the car that he shouldn’t have, he said “a lot”. The prosecutor said the driver was detained, and in the passenger footwell of the vehicle, officers found a backpack containing 20 packets of cocaine and 72 separate packets of marijuana. The total value of the drugs is estimated at £3,890. As police searched the car, Daniel Redmore exited the shop and was also arrested. A cell phone search in the backpack revealed a message about ordering and delivering marijuana, the prosecutor said, with the last message sent minutes earlier when police were following the car.

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In his subsequent interviews, Jonathan Redmore responded “no comment” to all questions asked, while Daniel Redmore denied knowing the backpack was at his feet, saying his brother picked it up from work at 4pm and left immediately. to sleep.

Jonathan Redmore, 45, and Daniel Redmore, 38, both of Cwm Road, Hafod, Swansea, previously pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to supply and possession of cannabis with intent to supply when they appeared in the dock for sentencing. Jonathan Redmore has 19 convictions for 59 crimes, including six for habitual drug possession. Daniel Redmore has three previous convictions for three crimes, including possession of mephedrone with intent to supply and involvement in supplying heroin since February 2021. The court heard that he had been jailed for three years for a heroin-related offense and that he was on the run from prison to leave when he committed other crimes.

Giles Hayes, on behalf of Jonathan Radmore, said the defendant wrote a letter to the court describing his failing health and his “downward spiral” into depression, which led him back to drug use. He said that after brother Daniel Redmore was arrested in 2021, the debts he accumulated became a “problem” for the family. The lawyer added that his client regrets his actions.

Andrew Evans, for Daniel Redmore, his client was released from prison on leave in April 2022 and received a “call” in December of that year from people he owed money to in connection with his past dealings. He said the defendant “wish he had been stronger and able to resist the attempts of those he owed money to” and apologized for unnecessarily involving a family member in what happened next. The attorney said Radmore had been abusing controlled substances for most of his adult life, but “hopefully, at age 38, this will be his last court appearance.”

Judge Christopher Vosper KC said that in Jonathan Redmore’s case, the appropriate post-trial sentence would be four and a half years in prison, with a third discount for his guilty plea, which was reduced to three years, but Judge he said that given the serious illness of the defendant and added difficulties, which will imply the fulfillment of a sentence in a regime of deprivation of liberty, the sentence will be reduced to one year in prison.

The judge said that given Daniel Redmore’s previous convictions and the fact that the crime was committed while he was on leave, the appropriate post-trial sentence in his case would be six years in prison, discounted by a quarter for his statements. , that they were hospitalized at a more advanced stage of the process than their brother, who was reduced to four and a half years. The judge said he was concerned about the disparity in the brothers’ sentences and would therefore reduce Daniel Redmore’s sentence “by a modest amount” to four years in prison. Each defendant will serve up to half of their sentence and then be released on leave to serve the remainder in the community.

Source: Wales Online