Southport drug dealer jailed for 10 years for role in major drugs network

A Merseyside drug-dealer (Julian Bell) was jailed for more than 10 years for his role in a major heroin and enterprise.

40 year-old Julian Bell acted as a wholesale supplier to a Gloucester gang and, under the guise of running a jewellery business, was able to arrange the supply of crack cocaine and heroin via sources throughout the country.

Julian Bell, of Dover Road, Hillside was the Merseyside gangster with a history of involvement in Manchester gang violence and moved at least £500,000 of drugs into Gloucester.

He was sentenced to 10 years and six months in custody after pleading guilty at Salisbury Crown Court.

Bell, who had previously received a prison sentence of 20 years for drugs and firearms offences, was among a total of 14 people convicted of supplying drugs into Gloucestershire after a year-long investigation.

The final members of the group were sentenced at Salisbury Crown Court.

Among them was:

• Robinson’s mother Sacha Nicholls, of Ince Castle Way, Gloucester. She was given a six-week jail term, suspended for a year, for money laundering
• His brother Ashley Nicholls-Perry, of Ince Castle Way, was sentenced at Gloucester Crown Court and received four years and six months for supplying heroin
• His half-brother Nahom Kidane, of Park End Road, Gloucester, received five years and eight months for supplying crack cocaine and heroin

Robinson launched his network in June 2016 while serving a sentence for possession of a sawn-off shotgun.

He smuggled at least 10 different mobile phones into prison and made thousands of phone calls to criminal contacts.

Family friend Julian Bell, 40, supplied the Class A drugs wholesale to the Gloucester gang.

Police said he moved at least £500,000 worth of crack cocaine and heroin into the city.

Bell, of Dover Road, Hillside, Merseyside, was also sentenced to 10 years and six months after pleading guilty to supplying crack cocaine and heroin.

• Shareen Randles, Parker Street, Birmingham: Six years for conspiring to supply class A drugs
• Kiano Haughton-Jones, HMP Bristol and Portland: Four years for supplying crack cocaine and heroin and a further count relating to the use/possession of a mobile phone whilst in prison
• Harry Wells, Deans Way, Gloucester: Six years and 10 months for supplying crack cocaine and heroin
• Jordan Ireland, Dingewell, Gloucester: Six years for conspiracy to supply heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine
• Jordan Lovesey, Underhill Road, Gloucester: Two years and eight months for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin
• Victoria Mawson, St Oswalds Road: Two years’ jail, suspended for two years, with an 80 hour community order for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin
• Amaan Khan, Sandygate Terrace, Bradford: One-year community order for money laundering

Paul Bedford was sentenced to two years and six months conspiracy for supplying heroin at an earlier hearing at Gloucester Crown Court.

Omari Martin, who admitted conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin, and using a mobile phone whilst in prison, will be sentenced in March.