Lynn cousins jailed for over 3 years
TWO cousins have been jailed for three-and-a-half years each after one of them was caught dealing drugs from Lynn's Hillington Square car park.
Alan Sweeney (32), of 5 Camfrey, Marsh Lane, Gaywood, and Ian Sweeney (24), of 10 Tower Street, Lynn, filled "gaps" in the drug market after police crackdowns cleared the town of heroin and cocaine dealers, Norwich Crown Court heard.
Police were tipped off about the pair by a member of the public who saw drugs being sold from a red Citroen Saxo in the car park in May.
When officers arrived they saw Alan throw something from the car which turned out to be a gram of heroin and then found nine wraps of the class A drug on him.
Later at his cousin Ian Sweeney's house they found drugs with a street value of more than 2,000.
Police also searched an address in Woodside, Fairstead, Lynn, the home of Ian's father and Alan's uncle, and found a safe containing 7,000.
The cousins appeared before the court for sentence on Friday having previously admitted conspiring to supply heroin between May 1 and 31.
They originally denied the offence but changed their pleas at the start of their trial earlier this month.
Jailing the pair, Judge Charles Gratwicke told them that the court would give "immediate custodial sentences" to heroin dealers to "deter others".
The court heard Alan had 12 previous convictions for 37 offences, six for possessing drugs, and Ian also had a number of previous drugs offences.
Stephen Spence, representing Alan, said he was not associated with the address that was searched and the car was not his.
William Carter, representing Ian, said he was a heroin user and had been addicted to the drug since he was 16 but was now making "determined efforts" to get off it.
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