Truck trainee and failed accountant dealt cocaine and cannabis via mail

DRUG dealers used the Royal Mail to deliver large quantities of cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy to customers across the north west.

- JOHN SCHEERHOUT

Trent Gordon, 30 and failed accountant Deane Hassan, 27, were caught redhanded when police raided their homes and found cash, drugs and packaging.

Now the pair, both fathers, have been jailed for supplying class A and B drugs in what a judge described as a 'prolific' operation. The court heard a third accomplice, Rebecca Murphy, was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence in December.

They were brought to justice following raids at addresses linked to the three, in Liverpool Street in Salford, Harrowby Lane in Bolton and Balmoral Road in Darwin, Lancashire, prosecutor Imran Khan told Manchester Crown Court.

Murphy and Hassan were at the Bolton address when police carried out the 5am raids and Murphy was seen taking cocaine when officers went into the kitchen, the court heard. Gordon was inside his Darwin home when police came through the door.