A CRACK cocaine addict caught with 36 wraps of class A drugs hidden in her underwear after she was stopped at the wheel of a car in Bradford’s Manningham Lane has been jailed for 18 months. 

Shanade Oliver also had two phones and £148 in cash with her when her white VW Golf was blocked in by the police at 12.15pm on October 24, 2020. 

Oliver, 32, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court yesterday on a video link to HMP New Hall where she was detained after failing to surrender on November 1. 

She pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply at an earlier hearing on the basis that she wasn’t street dealing.  

Deputy Circuit Judge Timothy Clayson labelled the basis of plea ‘a nonsense’ but felt it would be unfair to Oliver not to accept it. She had been led to believe since September that she would be sentenced for buying the drugs to share with friends and not to sell on. 

Prosecutor Abdul Shakoor said that police officers on patrol in Manningham suspected that the Golf had been used in connection with drug dealing. 

Oliver drove on to a car park with a woman passenger and their car was blocked in. 

Oliver had the two phones and the cash and she was putting her hand towards her crotch, the court was told. 

When she was searched at the police station, 17 wraps of crack cocaine and 19 of heroin were in her underwear. A further wrap of crack cocaine was recovered from the police car that had transported her. 

Mr Shakoor said the crack cocaine was 93 per cent purity and the heroin 60 per cent. In all the drugs were valued at £370. 

Oliver told the police she had bought them herself for £190 and the cash seized was her Universal Credit and from her grandparents. 

She had seven previous convictions for 14 offences, including handling stolen goods, possession of an offensive weapon, fraud and possession of heroin and cannabis. 

Her barrister, Ian Hudson, said she had been homeless and leading a chaotic lifestyle driven by her use of drugs. She welcomed a period in custody to help to rid her of her addiction. 

Judge Clayson said she was ‘very fortunate’ not to be dealt with as a street dealer but for having the drugs for social sharing without money changing hands. 

But she was still spreading heroin and crack cocaine around and that was very serious.  

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