A “cowardly and cynical” father-of-two used the home of his ex-partner and his children to stash cocaine with a street value of £9,000. Regan Campbell, from Newport, used Stevie Fletcher’s home for at least three months because he didn’t think officers would look there, Cardiff Crown Court heard on Wednesday.
On March 12 last year officers from Gwent Police carried out a warrant at Stevie Fletcher’s address at Playford Crescent in Newport while no-one was in the house. Minutes later Fletcher, 25, arrived at the property and told police that there was a stash of cocaine in the kitchen.
While carrying out the warrant the officers found significant drugs paraphernalia including weighing scales, sealed snap bags of cocaine, a spoon, a tick list, and a burner phone prosecutor Rachel Knight told the court. Fletcher was arrested at the property and admitted to permitting her premises to be used to keep the drugs. During sentencing Recorder Sean Bradley told Fletcher he was satisfied she played a low-level part in the offending and should have “stood up” to her ex rather than being “weak”.
