West Yorkshire pair sold heroin and crack cocaine in Selby

Adam Bradbury and Kaymn Glasgow hoped to live the high life with gold chains, holidays, hotel stays and buying vehicles, York Crown Court heard.

Today both are starting years in jail.

Zarreen Alam-Cheetham, prosecuting, said the pair took over the home of a vulnerable drug user in Selby in late 2022 and used it as their base to sell crack cocaine and heroin.

They messaged each other about making thousands of pounds of money and recruiting staff for their trade in poor-quality drugs.

But police, concerned about the drug addict, went to his home in early 2023 to check on his welfare and caught the pair there with drugs worth up to £860 on the streets of Selby.

They also found £630 in cash and drug-dealing paraphernalia.

The Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris, said messages on their mobile phones showed the pair had gone to Selby “to make a killing and get out.”

Dealers like them got their money from burglars, robbers and thieves.

“You are the source of a vast amount of hideous crime,” he told them.

Bradbury, 27, of School Street, Dewsbury, and Kaymn Glasgow, 27, of Crowtrees Crescent, Brighouses, both pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin, being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and having criminal cash.

Glasgow, who pleaded guilty shortly before he was due to be tried and whom the court heard was sentenced in Carlisle last year for drug dealing in Cumbria following his Selby crimes, was jailed for four years and nine months.

County lines drug dealer Adam Bradbury (Image: North Yorkshire Police)

Bradbury, who pleaded guilty at an earlier stage, was jailed for three and a half years.

His barrister Andrew Semple said he had sold drugs out of greed.

He had had a difficult background and had used alcohol and drugs from an early age.

The death of a friend had led to his drug habit spiralling out of control and him running up drug debts.

Bradbury was immature and the pair had used a “lot of hyperbole and gangster talk” in their messages to each other.

County lines drug dealer Kaymn Glasgow (Image: North Yorkshire Police)

Glasgow claimed in the witness box that he had been manipulated into dealing by violent drug dealers to whom he owed money.

But the judge didn’t believe him, saying he contradicted himself in evidence.

He had also been boxing since he was 12 and knew how to look after himself.

For Glasgow, Imran Khan said he had struggled with finding a direction in life after dropping out of university and been mixing with the wrong people when he committed the crimes.

Since his arrest, he had changed his life and was now trying to show others it was possible for people with a bad past to reform themselves.