MORE Bradford drug dealers have been put behind bars after being brought to justice through undercover police crackdown Operation Errantdance.

The major sting busted ‘ring and bring’ drug dealers between January and July 2019.

A number of dealers who peddled the misery of drugs on the streets of the city have already been jailed - and more joined them today after appearing before Bradford Crown Court to be sentenced.

All had entered guilty pleas to the charges they faced.

Sahir Haroon, 30, of Aberdeen Place, Lidget Green, was said to be the main man behind the so-called Billy line and was jailed for three years and nine months.

He supplied both crack cocaine and heroin to undercover officer ‘Libby’ on a number of occasions between May 18 and June 3 last year.

Prosecutor Philip Adams said he had a “significant role”. “The defendant is Billy,” he told the court. “This is his line.”

In mitigation, Balbir Singh said the line had run for 16 days and it was a “lack of judgement” over that period. “He came to his senses. When he knew police had been to his house, he voluntarily went to the police station.”

Jailing him, Judge Jonathan Rose said: “The impact of Class A drugs is not only on those who take them and are addicted to them.

“The impact is on the community, the community in which you live, the community in which your wife lives, the community in which your children live.”

He said Haroon had involved other people and for those who deal Class A drugs, imprisonment must follow.

Zeshan Khan, 27, of Enfield Drive, Wibsey, was sentenced for his “subordinate” role in the Billy line. He’d got a lift with Haroon and was in the car park of the Barkerend Road Lidl on May 23 last year when he handed two wraps of Class A drugs to Libby, took the cash and handed it to Haroon. That was said to be the extent of his involvement.

Mr Singh, also defending Khan, said he was in “wrong place at the wrong time”.

He was given a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

He will also have to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work and will have to carry out rehabilitation requirement days.

Nasar Ali, 46, of Lytton Road, Girlington, was uncovered in Errantdance on June 6 last year after supplying heroin to Libby.

The officer placed a call to the H20 line and spoke to Ali before meeting him on Paradise Street, Bradford. He was arrested in December at Manchester Airport on his return from Pakistan. He was jailed for three years.

Mohammed Hussain, 50, of Oakroyd Villas, Manningham, was also jailed after obtaining heroin for the undercover officer on three occasions while buying drugs for himself. He also offered to supply the opioid subutex. He was jailed for a total of 23 months.