Birmingham Mail
September 11, 2014
A jailed drug dealer who masterminded a £1.5 million heroin plot from behind bars– but was busted after being caught red-handed while on day release.
Sajad Hussain, 35, was sentenced to 15 years in April 2006 after being convicted of conspiracy to supply class A and class C drugs.
Yet before he had finished the jail term he began plotting to flood his home city of Birmingham with huge amounts of heroin.
But his plans were scuppered when he was arrested by police who raided the Saltley-based bedding factory where he was on day release from an open prison.
Officers seized a £1.5 million haul of heroin from the address and from a car at another location in the city.
Hussain has now been told he will serve a further 16 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
Three other members of the drugs gang were also jailed for a total of 30 years following the seven-month operation by West Midlands Police’s Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).
Hussain’s brothers-in-law, Nazabat Hussain, 23, and Asif Hussain, 26, both of Albert Road, were jailed for 12 and eight years respectively after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
Naqash Younis, 33, of Hartley Road, Kingstanding, also admitted the charge and was jailed for ten years.
Two other men, aged 25 and 43, from Birmingham, were found not guilty following a two-week trial in July.
Det Insp Ronan Tyrer, from SOCU, said: “This operation was set up to focus on the suspected drug supply activities of Sajad Hussain.
“As a result, we recovered six kilograms of heroin from a business premises called Cyber Beds in Saltley and a further nine kilograms from a vehicle parked outside Younis’s address in Kingstanding. The total street value of the drugs was £1.5 million.”