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Daily Mail
March 20, 2014
This is the footage that framed two drug dealers dubbed ‘Britain’s dumbest criminals’ after they forgot to turn off their own CCTV cameras while cutting and selling cocaine.
Cousins Arshad Khan and Abid Khan used a snooker hall as a front for their illegal business, hiding drugs inside the tables in a bid to shore up their struggling finances.
But they forgot to switch off the security cameras which they had installed to deter troublemakers at the Frames Snooker Club, in Accrington, Lancashire – and these images were seized by police.
When police watched the CCTV footage, they saw the Khans dividing up cocaine on the baize of the tables and bagging them up for sale.
It emerged that the two cousins had been hiding their haul of drugs inside chalk compartments and on the underside of the tables.
At Burnley Crown Court Arshad, 40, from Haslingden, and 27-year-old Abid, from Colne, admitted possessing ecstasy and conspiracy to supply cocaine, and were each jailed for three and a half years.
During mitigation, Abid’s lawyer Philip Holden said: ‘It’s like something off Britain’s Dumbest Criminal. It’s bizarre that people who are running this sort of enterprise would allow the CCTV still to be running.’
Earlier, the court heard how the pair had leased the club in April last year using funding from their families, but quickly saw the business fail and began using it as cover for drug dealing.
In June, police stopped a car with three associates of the Khans and found a bag of cannabis, and in October they raided the two men’s homes and found bags with traces of cocaine.
