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Leeds lawyer jailed for drug dealing
A LEEDS lawyer has been jailed after he supplied cocaine to undercover police in a nightclub sting.
Dr Roger Lowe, 40, was handed a three-year sentence yesterday by Judge Jennifer Lowe QC who told him: "You are too old and too well qualified to be engaging in this sort of activity."
Lowe – a chemical specialist and a former associate at leading law firm Walker Morris – was arrested after he arranged for an undercover officer to receive two bags of cocaine.
Leeds Crown Court heard how Lowe, of Parkside Close, was one of several people arrested in the police operation at the Baby Jupiter club on York Place, Leeds. He pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine.
Richard Reed, for Lowe, said Lowe had lost his job and he had only used the drug, which he did not supply for profit, to give himself a lift due to stress and long workinghours.
Leeds University student Anthony McKeown, 23, of Scott Hall Road, who admitted eight charges of supplying drugs, was jailed for four years.
Richard Keight, 24, also a student from Frodsham, Cheshire, was jailed for two and a half years after admitting three charges of supplying ecstasy.
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