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A crack addict drug dealer has been jailed after police found £30,000 in dirty cash hidden in a safe in his bedroom.
Richard Duncan, 44, was brought to justice after police stopped a car from which he was dealing cocaine, crack and heroin. Officers found more drugs and wads of money when they raided his home.
Now 'entrenched' criminal Duncan has been jailed despite a plea for mercy because of 'mobility issues'. He hobbled into the dock on crutches.
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Suspicious cops stopped a Ford Fiesta on Whiteacre Road in Ashton-under-Lyne at just after midnight on November 6, 2019, and beside Duncan, who was in the front passenger seat, officers discovered a large quantity of drugs in the pocket of the door in a series of sealed snap bags.
They found cocaine, crack and heroin with a street value of £840. Duncan also had on him £120 in cash which he claimed to have withdrawn from a cash machine, prosecutor Chloe Fordham told Minshull Street Crown Court.
Duncan was arrested and when officers then raided his home on Albion Street, also in Ashton-under-Lyne, they found a 'modest' amount of cannabis, amphetamines worth up to £700 in his freezer and up to £30,000 in cash in a safe in his bedroom. He also had a set of electric scales to measure out drug deals and CS spray cannister.
The drug dealer had ten sets of previous convictions covering 53 offences including class A drug crimes, the court heard.
John Dove, defending, told the court of his client's mobility issues and urged the judge to suspend any prison sentence. Duncan walked into court with the aid of crutches and a brace on his right knee.
The defendant was receiving treatment for PTSD, anxiety and
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