A drug dealer waited nearly five years to learn his fate after he was caught red-handed by police. Billy Unthank could have gone to prison if he had been dealt with nearer the time he committed the offence.
But his sentence of two years was suspended for two years at Nottingham Crown Court given the passage of time. He pleaded guilty to possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply. Two co-accused were previously handed suspended prison sentences.
Unthank, of Gilt Hill House, Kimberley, was caught with the drugs on his person at a property in Midland Road, Eastwood, on December 14, 2017, and more than £400 in cash. Proceedings against him were only started in 2019 and "there was a substantial delay before the first court hearing," said Gurdial Singh, prosecuting on Thursday (September 1).
