Former Leeds lecturer caught with £10,000 worth of drugs
Police find stash after safeguarding visit
An ex lecturer was caught with a kilogramme of cannabis at his home in Leeds.
Darren McGuinness is already a serving prisoner having been jailed in October last year for domestic offences.
He was returned to Leeds Crown Court where he admitted dealing in cannabis, conspiracy to deal in cannabis and possession of cocaine.
Police went to his address on Helston Road, Middleton, on August 6 last year over safeguarding issue in relation to a woman.
During a search of the property they found bags of cannabis weighing more than 1kg.
It was estimated the value was between £2,500 wholesale and £10,000 if sold on the streets in individual deals.
Messages were also found on the 52-year-old’s phone relating to the sale of drugs in large quantities.
He was jailed in October last year for 16 months for coercive behaviour and harassment.
McGuinness, who previously worked a lecturer who worked at Leeds College of Building, was given a suspended sentence in August 2023 for harassing a police officer and telling her he had hired a hitman to kill her.
Little mitigation was offered for the drugs offence after Judge Christopher Batty told McGuinness it had to be consecutive sentence.
He gave him an additional four months.