Man who brokered £20,000 Gipton cocaine deal is jailed at Leeds Crown Court

Lloyd Randall and accomplices caught a taxi to an address in Gipton where the drug deal happened on May 24 2019, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Robert Stevenson, prosecuting, said Randall, 40, got out of the taxi just before 8.30pm and was seen on his mobile phone before meeting another man on the street.

Mr Stevenson said Randall and one of his accomplices went into a house and Randall left with a white package in his jacket pocket.

Police stopped the taxi in Roundhay and the package was recovered from an accomplice's boxer shorts.

Mr Stevenson said it contained more than 293 grammes of cocaine with a street value of £19,887.

Randall, of Tyersal Road, Bradford, admitted conspiracy to supply class A drug cocaine on May 24 2019.

Rick Holland, mitigating for Randall, said the father of four had been released from prison on licence in July 2018 and had got a job as a cleaner.

Mr Holland said Randall, 40, was only involved in the one incident on that day and regrets it.

He has previous convictions for burglary, possession of heroin with intent to supply, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.

Jailing Randall for four years, Judge Christopher Batty told him: "You brokered a deal of a significant quantity of high purity cocaine."