Cocaine dealer suspected of stashing drugs in his bottom tried to flush them at Wakefield hospital
A desperate drug dealer tried to flush £2,500 of high-grade cocaine down the toilet in hospital following a car crash.
Callum Murray is suspected to have stored the drugs in his anus but a police officer barged into the toilet cubicle at Wakefield’s Pinderfields Hospital before he had chance to flush them.
The 34-year-old was due to be sentenced at Leeds Crown Court this week but the judge adjourned the case for details about his suspected ADHD and autism to be clarified.
Prosecutor Oishee Dey outlined the case, telling the court that police had tried to pull Murray over on January 22, 2022, in Pontefract, but he accelerated away.
He reached 70mph in a 30mph zone in his BMW but then crashed at a roundabout.
With the airbags deployed, he was helped out of the car by the arriving officers.
He told them he had drugs in his boxer shorts and in the car.
There were wraps of crack cocaine in the car and bags of cocaine on him.
Murray complained of being injured in the crash so was taken to Pinderfields.
While there he said he needed the toilet. When the officer became suspicious and burst in, Murray tried to quickly flush the chain but was stopped.
The officer noticed a sandwich bag in the toilet bowl which was removed and found to contain 52 wraps of 80 per cent-purity cocaine.
The total value of the drugs found on him and the car was worth up to £3,800. His phone was seized and also showed messages related to drug dealing.
Murray, of Barnsley Road, Hemsworth, gave a no-comment police interview.
He later admitted dangerous driving and dealing in Class A drugs.
He has seven previous convictions for 12 offences, including drug-driving.
A probation report into Murray suggested he was at a “low point in his life” after his relationship broke down due to his own drug use.
He claimed he was homeless for a period of time, had built up a drug debt and was unable to pay, so was put to work selling drugs.
Mitigating, Lydia Carroll said he was on a lengthy waiting list to be screened for ADHD and autism.
She said he had lived in a new-age traveller campsite as a youngster and started taking drugs at the age of 11, “progressing onto harder and harder drugs”.
The judge, Recorder Jeremy Hill-Baker adjourned the case until April 8 for further details about his undiagnosed ADHD and autism, which he said could make a difference to his sentence.