A drug dealer who hid 58 wraps of crack and heroin in his bum said he strayed into peddling Class As to cope with having to pay for his mum’s funeral.
Tyrone Grimes, 25, was arrested by police after they spotted him carry out a suspected drug deal in the Widnes on May 11 this year. Paul Wood, prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday, said officers pulled over a Citroen Berlingo on Hale Road and arrested the driver, Grimes, who “tried to struggle”.
The officer also seized a “burner” phone from Grimes’s pocket. At Cheshire Police’s northern custody suite, officers strip-searched Grimes.
