A family man who bagged up heroin into street deals at his home to make “easy money” has been jailed for almost six years.

Kabir Hussain, 27, was caught with a £5,000 stash of the class A drug when police raided his house in Myers Close, Idle, Bradford, on May 7 last year.

Prosecutor John Bull told Bradford Crown Court yesterday that Hussain was in breach of a 51-week suspended jail term for possession of class A drugs with intent to supply.

Hussain and his brother, Aszad Hussain, 24, who was staying with him at the time, pleaded guilty to possession of heroin with intent to supply.

Kabir Hussain admitted a further offence of drug supplying while on bail.

He told police in May, 2010, he had been storing and bagging up heroin for up to two months.

Aszad Hussain was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment suspended for two years with a six-month curfew.

Judge Jonathan Rose told him: “You too played a part in this trade in misery and death.”

But Aszad Hussain had no previous convictions and had committed no further offences.

Also in the dock was Mohammed Ishaq, 23, of Fairfield Road, Toller Lane, Bradford. He pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and was jailed for 32 months.

Mr Bull said Ishaq was stopped in a silver BMW on Dalcross Grove, West Bowling, Bradford, on October 12 last year with 330 wraps of the class A drugs.

Small quantities of heroin and cocaine were found at his home.

On February 22, Kabir Hussain, who was on bail, was re-arrested after his fingerprints were found on bagged up drugs in the BMW.

Kabir Hussain’s barrister, Imran Shafi, said he was holding the heroin and bagging it up for others to sell on the streets.

He had been honest enough to admit he was not a drug addict, nor paying off a debt, but in it for the money.

Hussain’s wife, a full-time carer, and their young child would suffer while he was in prison.

David McGonigal, for Aszad Hussain, said he helped his brother weigh and bag the heroin on one occasion.

“He played a relatively minor part in the drug enterprise,” Mr McGonigal said.

Nigel Hamilton, for Ishaq, said he was not selling drugs, just holding them for Kabir.

Judge Rose told Kabir Hussain he acted out of greed and the promise of easy money.

He was jailed for five years, plus the 51 weeks that were suspended.