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Drug dealers caged for 27 years

3:11pm Friday 18th July 2008

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By Cara Lee »

Two drug dealers have been jailed for 27 years collectively after they stashed £4.35m worth of heroin into their cars.

Mylton Demetriou, 31 of Frankfurt Road, Herne Hill, and football coach Sean Foster, 29 of Thakenham Close, Sydenham, were arrested after police watched Demetriou transfer a grey holdall from the boot of his VW Golf into the boot of Foster's BMW, in Frant Road, Croydon.

Officers stopped both cars after they pulled away from the road. Foster's car boot contained 54kg of heroin inside two holdalls. Both men were charged for their roles in supplying Class A drugs.

Officers later found £48,300 in cash inside Foster's bedroom wardrobe at his home.

Both men were sentenced today at Croydon Crown Court. Demetriou was jailed for 15 years after being found guilty of conspiring to supply Class A drugs.

Foster was imprisoned for 12 years for the same offence.

Detective Inspector Paul Johnson, from the Met's Projects Team, said: "This was a significant intervention into a large Class A drugs deal and these convictions are the result of some great proactive detective work by my team.

"The Specialist Crime Directorate's Projects Team continue in their efforts to successfully dismantle and disrupt these networks, stemming the flow of these damaging drugs onto the streets of London".

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Anon, LONDON says...
3:39pm Fri 18 Jul 08

WHY DO DRUG DEALERS GET 27 YEARS BUT IF YOU KILL SOMEONE YOU GET 4.....?

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peter evans, says...
3:47pm Fri 18 Jul 08

drug dealers kill people !

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carly, london says...
3:51pm Fri 18 Jul 08

Yeh but drug dealers don't force people to take drugs, they are just making money out of a demanding market.
If people wish to use drugs & risk their lives & pay silly money for the stuff, the dealers don't care that this person will drop dead.
But someone who directly kills someone is there for a reason...to harm

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terry, says...
4:02pm Fri 18 Jul 08

carly sorry but read youre comments they dont make sense r u sure ur not on drugs

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Anti-Drugs, Croydon says...
7:02pm Fri 18 Jul 08

Carly, the dealers try hard to get people hooked and become addicts, that is their game, many inocent fools take the bait. Sadly there are many lemming fools around.

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Realist, Croydon says...
8:05pm Fri 18 Jul 08

While dealers may not directly kill people, Carly, they spawn potential killers, muggers and thieves by getting them hooked so they need to commit crime to feeed their habits. If I had my way dealers would be deliberately hooked and cold-turkeyed half a dozen times in prison on the drugs they'd been caught with so they'd know first-hand the pain they put others through out of sheer GREED. Then their assets would be liquidated and the proceeds fed into drug rehabilitation programs. And when the dealers are finally released they would be required to work in the drug rehabilitaion centres - under strict supervision - to rub their noses in the misery they've caused. Realist for next PM!

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Peter, Paradise says...
9:15pm Fri 18 Jul 08

Anon wrote:
WHY DO DRUG DEALERS GET 27 YEARS BUT IF YOU KILL SOMEONE YOU GET 4.....?

Amen

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Croyboy, says...
8:18am Sun 20 Jul 08

"Realist" wrote

And when the dealers are finally released they would be required to work in the drug rehabilitation centres...

In the case in question they, and other imported criminals, should automatically be deported to their countries of origin on release.

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carly, london says...
8:57am Mon 21 Jul 08

Realist & Anti-drugs,
I totally understand your point I've seen what drugs can do to people. I was just trying to say that drug dealers don't care if they kill someone as they are making their money & thats that.
And I was also responding the the comment above mine regarding the dealers killing people. Like I said they don't care what happens to the person once they've bought the drugs. So it isn't directly killing someone. That was what I was trying to say.
I don't know how that came out to people but sorry if any one got confused.
Oh & Terry, it's nice to see people still making negative comments for no reason. Maybe if you asked to elaborate on what I was saying you wouldn't make digs such as yours?

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Trasie, mitcham says...
11:22am Mon 21 Jul 08

I agree to the first comment why did they get so many years living in one of our jails when really they should be deported to spend their sentence in one of their own jails. That's what the E.U should be about. Not let the criminals come over here to commit crime and sit in our jails. Gosh, we are becoming a laughing stock.

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jacqui probert, bristol says...
12:35pm Mon 21 Jul 08

drug gangs and dealers kill more ways than one... thet get people hooked and they die and they kill for the gang realted issue of it all,,, glad they got 27 years but they should do there time in there own bloody country not ours and suffer

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Someone, London says...
2:01pm Mon 21 Jul 08

Jacqui Probery u racist cow if you didnt already see maybe you should look again but there addresses are from London it doesnt mean because there BLACK they come from another country! U fool!!!!!
People who buy drugs are to blame themselves for there own way of living a drug dealer is only exploiting people who wish to be exploited.

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Anon, LONDON says...
4:03pm Mon 21 Jul 08

Anon wrote:
WHY DO DRUG DEALERS GET 27 YEARS BUT IF YOU KILL SOMEONE YOU GET 4.....?

What drug dealers do is not right, but what i dont understand is that they get 12 years for exploiting what a person chooses to take and if it kills them thas down to them, but i man/boy can go out with a knife and and kill another man and get 4 years it just does not make sence to me at all.

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O. B Server, ritish Columbia, Canada says...
7:47pm Mon 21 Jul 08

How many tears does the pharmacist shed when an elderly person accidentally takes too much Prozac combined with digitalis, and dies as a result? Or from too much paracetamol, or any number of an infinite combinations of legal but lethal prescription drugs? As many tears as any Class A dealer. Oh the raging hypocrisy.

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Robert, London says...
1:52pm Wed 23 Jul 08

I look forward to the day when tobacco companies are prosecuted for deliberately targetting the public with a drug that causes enormous health problems. Then again it is the government & their friends that run & control these industries. Look, take drugs if you wish but spare me the crocodile tears about 'drug' dealers 'killing' people. I don't take drugs and you can target me all you **** well like.

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Manning, clapham says...
6:36pm Wed 23 Jul 08

The reason as to why this country faces as many problems as it does is because of ignorance. For all of those who say that they should go back to their country; they are British citizens and this is their country. You are merely displaying a 'pleb' culture of ignorance. We do not solve problems by making stupid comments like you have. ofcourse drugs are bad and nobody can say different but in my eyes a rapist or paedophile is far worse and they get far less time. When are we going to wake up and realise that prison does not work. Over 65% of prisoners go on to re-offend. Why do we not offer our CITIZENS better chances when they are younger so that they do not turn to crime. So why don't you ignorant people learn real facts and make a difference as opposed to making stupid racist comments.Just because somebody is not white does not mean they are not Briish!!!

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ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
10:59am Thu 24 Jul 08

Good for you,Manning.

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Croyboy, Croydon says...
3:05pm Thu 24 Jul 08

Manning, you say "why this country faces as many problems as it does is because of ignorance".
Not quite right, if you'll pardon me. One of the main reason this country faces as many social problems as it does is because our so-called "democratic representatives" consistently ignore the will of the people they ostensibly "serve" regarding immigration/refugees
/asylum-seekers etc.

You say "they are British citizens and this is their country".
Oh? When did we, the people, agree to that?

"Just because somebody is not white does not mean they are not Briish!!!"
Correct: it means they are not English.

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Manning, clapham says...
11:18pm Thu 24 Jul 08

Mr Croydon boy, it appears that our education system has failed you too. If somebody is born to Britsh Citizens they are also British Citizens. Are you also going to critise the good that non- English Citizens do for this country?. I am a British Citizen but non English and pay a good amount of taxes for some, not all, English people to stay at home and lavish off the welfare system that MY taxes pay for. I am so glad that people like you are not in power. Your comments are racist,rude and do nothing to rectifying real problems. This is excactly what I mean by 'pleb culture'. Ofcourse we should offer help to people that are persecuted in their own country. This is why we pride ourselves on being a free-democratic society. However, this has nothing to do with the issue we are commenting on. These are British Citizens albiet not English.Deal with it and offer constructive comments or criticism if you so wish but not racist comments as there is no room for racism in an aleady troubled world.

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Manning, clapham says...
11:19pm Thu 24 Jul 08

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Croyboy, Croydon says...
8:05am Fri 25 Jul 08

Manning wrote: "Mr Croydon boy, it appears that our education system has failed you too".
Ah, a question immediately presents itself: what do you mean by "our"?
As it happens, I am aware of the law as it stands regarding nationality (and don't agree with it!) and simply made the point that being British does not necessarily make you English. Are you attempting to argue about that statement?

Manning wrote: "Are you also going to critise the good that non- English Citizens do for this country?"
No, I'm saying that my country's being flooded with foreigners, and I - and I believe the majority of my fellow countrymen - don't want them here.

Manning wrote: "Your comments are racist,rude and do nothing to rectifying real problems".
I never mentioned race, and whether or not my comments are "rude" is a matter of opinion. As for "rectifying real problem", that's exactly what I'm trying to do, by clearly identifying it and going to the heart of the matter.

Manning wrote: "Of course we should offer help to people that are persecuted in their own country".
I really liked this one! Tell me, Manning, in your generosity with my country, how many "persecuted" people would you be happy to see come here? 100,000? Half a million? Ten million? Twenty million?
Where - in your wisdom - would you draw the line?

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Manning, clapham says...
8:02pm Fri 25 Jul 08

Dear Mr Croyboy, the underlying tone of what you say clearly demontrates your racist views. Why have you highlighted the word "our" and you have costantly said "my country". Just because many of us are not English does not mean that this is not our country. I have much more to write on this topic but it appears that whatever I have to say has fallen onto deaf ears with you.
My final comment is that through your own admission, you refer to yourself as a 'Croydon boy' and you have done well in highlighting your own mentality.
I do not diagree with immigration controls but I stand by what I say in that you are rude and racist. For that reason, I veto myself out of this discussion with you.

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Croyboy, Croydon says...
12:01pm Sat 26 Jul 08

Manning wrote: "Dear Mr Croyboy, the underlying tone of what you say clearly demontrates your racist views".
No, try again. What you mean is it "demonstrates your racist views in my opinion". I take it you're not claiming papal infallibility!
In fact, race is a complete red herring: I want the hordes of foreigners recently arrived in my country sent back - irrespective of race. ...But of course, I've always found you and your ilk aren't interested in the truth, only in promoting your own agenda.

Manning wrote: "Why have you highlighted the word "our" and you have costantly said "my country".
1/ Because I wasn't clear about the your meaning of "our" in the context used.
2/ "my country", because it's mine by birth, blood, family, culture, history, and provenance, because both my grandfathers fought for it in the First World War, and my father in the Second.
Do you have a problem with that?

Manning wrote: "Just because many of us are not English does not mean that this is not our country".
True. But it doesn't mean that this is, either.

Manning wrote: "I do not diagree with immigration controls..."
That's big of you! ...But in a world of climate change, dwindling resources, and global warming, the planet in general and the UK in particular need more people like they need a hole in the head. Therefore it surely makes sense to have no immigration.

Manning wrote: "I veto myself out of this discussion with you".
Very wise!

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