The head of a heroin and crack cocaine "business" tried to flee over the fence of his back garden when police raided his home, then told his wife: "It's nothing to do with you girl, it's all me."
Scott Dyer entered the underworld and began supplying to other drug dealers after racking up huge gambling debts. He also recruited his brother Joseph to work on his behalf, and was caught with tens of thousands of pounds in cash hidden under his bathroom sink.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, that Merseyside Police executed search warrants at the two defendants' houses on July 21 this year. Tom Challinor, prosecuting, described how this strike date had been the "culmination of an investigation which spanned four months".
