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A man was "living a secret life" which unravelled the moment he walked into a bar - having hidden it from his family.
Kai Birkett was caught trying to enter Reef Bar in Warrington, on March 13, 2022, when a member of the door staff searched the now 23-year-old and found six bags of white powder - which was later identified to be cocaine with a street value of up to £300.
Birkett, a joiner from Merseyside, was arrested. Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday, October 3, that a search of Birkett's home found more cocaine, £500 in cash, a set of scales with cocaine residue on and three "burner" phones, the day after his arrest, reports the Liverpool ECHO.
Around 4.3g of the class A drug, with a street value of up to £330, were found in Birkett's possession. Mr Blasbery told the court the phones had evidence of drug-related messages on them.
Birkett, however, answered "no comment" to every question from detectives at the police station following his arrest. Paul Wood, defending, said the case had taken a while to get to court, but said "the defendant hasn't helped that because he did not cooperate with the police".
The lawyer told the court at the time of the offence his client had a "lack of maturity" and had a £300-a-week a cocaine habit. He had been using the drug since he was 18 and in March last year began dealing drugs to finance his own use of the drug. The lawyer said his client had also fallen into debt following the theft of a number of work tools.
Mr Wood said his client was "living a secret life", adding: "On the face he was a positive member of society and then got the habit and went to illegal lengths to feed that habit."
However, he added his client, who initially denied he had
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