Drug dealer who made £1million from heroin plot will only have to pay ONE POUND in compensation after pleading poverty

A DRUG dealer who made £1million from a heroin plot will repay just £1 compensation.

Masood Aslam, 28, is serving ten years in jail for conspiracy to supply drugs worth £5.5million.

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But during a proceeds of crime confiscation hearing at Bradford crown court he said he had just £1.

He was locked up for six years and five months last October, to run consecutively with a three year and seven month jail sentence he had received at Manchester Crown Court for ferrying cocaine.

Aslam, nicknamed Max, was a member of a gang that stockpiled 30 kilos of heroin at a flat in Lister Court, Bradford. Also seized by police was a kilo of crack cocaine and 38 kilos of cutting agents.

The high purity of the heroin gave the haul a potential street value of more than £5 million.
Aslam, of Bradford, was linked to the mammoth stash when drugs squad officers found a dealer list under his mattress, and he went on to courier cocaine while on bail.

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At the time, he was on prison licence after being locked up for five years for possession of a handgun.

Aslam pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, between January and June, 2013.

And while on police bail, in November 2013, he was stopped in a car that was transporting cocaine between Manchester and Bradford.

He admitted possession of the drug with intent to supply.

In September, 2014, six members of the Lister Court gang were jailed for a total of more than 60 years at Bradford Crown Court for conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

They included Aslam's brother, Mohammed Dawood Aslam, 38, also of Knightsbridge Walk. He was described as "the directing hand" in the plot and jailed for 17 years.

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Police used camera surveillance at the flat to identify the men and tracked them using mobile phone activity as drugs were transported from Manchester to Bradford.

Judge Peter Benson said: "In my view, this was the most substantial quantity of drugs to unleash on the streets of West Yorkshire, including a very, very substantial amount of heroin."