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Coke dealer gets five years

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South London Press

Coke dealer gets five years

Feb 15 2005

A COCAINE dealer who turned his home into a drugs factory and hid thousands of pounds in his fridge has been jailed.

Adelino Lourenco, 42, was a middleman and drug mixer in a £100,000 plot.

But he claimed he only got involved after a blackmail threat and told police he had stomach cancer. Lourenco admitted conspiracy to supply a class-A drug and possessing criminal property.

He was jailed for five years at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court on Thursday.

The court heard that police raided Lourenco's home on November 3. He had hidden £14,000 cash in his fridge and in shoe boxes.

Police also found a 200g block of cocaine in his kitchen and several small bags of the drug. Lourenco confessed to officers: "I have stomach cancer and I've been selling cocaine for three months at £50 a wrap."

Lourenco, of Seaton Close in Kennington, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to supply a class-A drug between July 13 and November 3.

He pleaded guilty to a second count of possession of criminal property on November 3.

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