Two members of a "big time Charlie" drugs gang have been ordered to pay back just a fraction of their ill-gotten gains.
As we reported previously, an undercover police officer feared for his safety when Nessar Ali pulled out a handgun during a cocaine deal. Ali had no idea the man he was supplying was a police officer when he produced the imitation firearm and said he had come prepared. But the covert cop was fearful as he didn't know what his intentions were and whether the gun was real.
Ali, along with Aaron Momat and Christopher Scurfield, who sold £10,000 of cocaine to undercover officers in another deal, were jailed earlier this year. They were snared during an operation targeting dealers in South Tyneside in 2018. Ali sold a total of 111g, of cocaine, worth more than £5,000, to undercover police officers on twelve occasions. One of the deals was 98% pure and one weighed nine ounces.
