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Drug dealer sent to jail
A BRIDLINGTON drug dealer caught by undercover police has been jailed for two months for not taking court orders seriously.
Terry Lownes, 27, failed to keep promises to turn up for strict court orders as an alternative to being locked up for dealing in class A drugs.
Justice finally caught up with him on Tuesday, May 5 when Judge Michael Mettyear told him he had plenty of chances in the past to avoid prison and jailed him for two months at Hull Crown Court.
Lownes was convicted of supplying 0.322 grams of heroin to an undercover Humberside Police officer following a sting operation last year. Lownes thought he was supplying to an addict, but it was a recorded test purchase.
Lownes, of Stamford Walk, West Hill, Bridlington, was given a 12-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work when he pleaded guilty to a charge of supplying class A drugs last year and allowed to walk free on condition he took the golden opportunity.
Barrister Ian Newton told the court on Tuesday, May 5 that Lownes had failed to attend appointments on February 15 and April 15.
He said Humberside Probation Service now wanted him to be sentenced again after admitting breaches.
Lownes, whose partner has two children, claimed he had been attending a hospital appointment with one of his children and had lost his complex weekly diary sheet and was not given dates.
His barrister Richard Thomson said he had been making progress with counseling and had completed 96 hours of unpaid work.
However, Judge Michael Mettyear told Lownes: "You can hardly complain for not being given plenty of chances.
"During the last 10 years you have been given supervision orders, curfew orders, drug treatments and testing orders, and conditional discharges. Community orders are there to be obeyed."
He said the sentence was shortened because of the relatively small amount of drugs, the age of the offence and his completion of 96 hours of work.
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