Bridgnorth drug courier sentenced to 16 months
Wednesday 2nd February 2011, 6:00PM GMT.
A Shropshire man who was carrying heroin with a street value of almost £700 around Bridgnorth has been sentenced to 16 months detention in a young offenders’ institution.
Craig Hurd, 20, of Queens Road, Bridgnorth, had pulled out of an arrangement to take 13.8 grammes of heroin from Telford to Aberystwyth by train on June 16 last year.
But after police had an anonymous tip-off, he was found with the drugs at the Tesco Express petrol station in Bridgnorth’s Low Town just hours later.
Hurd, who previously admitted a charge of possessing a controlled class A drug with intent to supply, was sentenced to 16 months detention at a hearing at Shrewsbury Crown Court yesterday.
Mr Iain Bennett, prosecuting, said Hurd had been taken to Telford railway station by an Asian man and woman to courier drugs to Aberystwyth in exchange for £200.
Mr Bennett said a one-way train ticket was bought for Hurd but he changed his mind after the man and woman had left.
He said Hurd then caught a bus to Bridgnorth and was found by police just before midnight after they had received a tip-off that Hurd was in possession of drugs,
The court heard Hurd was carrying two bags of heroin with a purity of 34 per cent. Mr Bennett said the street value of the drugs was between £550 and £700.
Mr Michael Sherwood-Smith, for Hurd, said his client was a fantasist who he believed had tried to impress people and earn himself some money in the process.
He said: “Somehow he (Hurd) got himself recruited into something well over his head and beyond his capabilities to carry out something in a cold and commercial manner. He reneged on the deal too late and found himself in a situation that he simply could not cope with.”
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