Drugs kingpin, 35, who distributed ‘staggering’ £35million worth of heroin and cocaine from his suburban home while loading his oven and draws full of narcotics is jailed for 24 years
- Ivan Graham, 35, helped push drugs into towns and cities across the Midlands
- His home in Derby was found to contain drugs and a loaded Uzi-submachine gun
- The drugs were kept in an oven and cash was also found crammed into drawers
- He admitted seven charges including possession with intent to supply drugs
- The drugs kingpin was jailed for 24 years at Derby Crown Court on Wednesday
Ivan Graham (pictured), 35, was jailed at Derby Crown Court on Wednesday for 24 years after admitting seven charges including possession with intent to supply drugs
A drugs kingpin who distributed a ‘staggering’ £35million worth of heroin and cocaine from his suburban home has been jailed for 24 years.
Ivan Graham, 35, was involved in a distribution network that pushed tens of millions of pounds of drugs into towns and cities across the Midlands.
When police searched his house they found bags of heroin and cocaine in the oven and a loaded Uzi-submachine gun in a bedroom.
Shocking pictures reveal the extent of the illegal activity going on at his two-bedroom home in Derby with cannabis and cash crammed into drawers.
Graham, who gave his address as being in Rugby, Warkshire, admitted seven charges including possession with intent to supply drugs.
Jailing him for 24 years at Derby Crown Court on Wednesday, Judge Robert Egbuna said: ‘You are clearly deeply rooted in the underworld, drugs are a way of life for you.
‘This was a well-organised criminal enterprise and you played a leading role in it. You had the ability to obtain significant quantities of high-purity class A drugs from source.
‘Analysis of the drugs and packaging seized at that address showed 996kg – almost a metric tonne – of class A drugs could have gone through it in less than two years.
‘And that is a conservative estimate.’
When police searched the home of Graham they found bags of heroin and cocaine in the oven (pictured) and a loaded Uzi-submachine gun in a bedroom. Police believe that between July 2016 and May 2018 around £35m of drugs would have gone through his address
Drawers stuffed with cannabis and cash were also found at the property. Drugs such as these were among the product Graham helped push into towns and cities across the Midlands
Prosecutor Adrian Langdale said the case began with a routine street arrest in May when two officers, on uniformed patrol, stopped Graham shortly after he left the property.
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Incredibly, between July 2016 and May this year, detectives revealed around £35 million worth of drugs would have gone through the semi-detached property.
The drugs arrived at the house in raw form and, after being cut and repackaged, were then supplied to other dealers for sale.
Following his arrest earlier this year in May – an estimated £500,000 in cash was found at the address along with multiple kilos of heroin, cocaine and cannabis with a street value of up to £1.3 million.
Also found at the property were a number of firearms, including a loaded Uzi sub-machine gun, and ammunition for the weapons.
Numerous sets of digital scales were also found in many of the rooms as well as Pakistani rupees.
A number of firearms were found at the property including a loaded Uzi sub-machine gun (pictured). This weapon was found in Graham’s very own bedroom at the property in Derby
Mr Langdale, when he opened the case, told the hearing: ‘This defendant is responsible for the movement of tens of millions of pounds of class A drugs on a scale that can never be accurately 100 per cent known.
‘The address was being used for an industrial-sized enterprise which saw the storage, cutting, production and wholesale supply of class A drugs on a level so vast that it is unprecedented within the Midlands.
‘Not only were huge amounts of drugs, firearms and cash recovered from the property but the contents discovered in a wooden garden shed at the bottom of the garden really gave away the sheer scale of what was happening.
‘In bin bags stuffed inside the shed was the original packaging for the imported high purity heroin and cocaine from source.
‘This was analysed by experts who have concluded that in total, in just under two years, 996kg of class A drugs had gone through this address.
‘At its lowest wholesale level that would have reaped £17.8m and at its highest level £34.8m.’
Graham was interviewed a number of times mainly answering ‘no comment’ to the questions he was asked.
Mr Langdale said: ‘In one of the interviews he told officers the drugs were for his own use.’
Police also found drugs stuffed with cash when the searched the property in May. Between July 2016 and May this year, detectives revealed around £35 million worth of drugs would have gone through the semi-detached property
The quiet suburban home Graham used to distribute millions of pounds worth of drugs over the course of two years. The property is understood now to be occupied by a new tenant and is in no way part of any police investigations
But in July he plead guilty to numerous offences, including possession of a firearm, intent to supply heroin and intent to supply cocaine.
Assistant Chief Constable Paul Gibson, of Derbyshire Constabulary, said: ‘The sentencing shows the serious nature of the criminality that Ivan Graham was undertaking.
‘Over the course of two years he was involved in a distribution network that pushed tens of millions of pounds of drugs into towns and cities across the Midlands.
‘The level of activity in the property is, quite frankly, staggering.
‘In shutting this operation down we have cut off a major supplier of drugs who has, and would have continued, to cause untold misery to thousands of families across Derbyshire and the wider region.
‘On top of large quantity of drugs, a number of firearms were found at the address including an Uzi sub-machine gun.
‘The people of Derby are safer now that this weapon, along with others found at the address, is off the streets.
‘My team and I are dedicated to making sure criminals like Graham can never sleep soundly.
‘They should be looking over their shoulder at all times because we will catch up with them – and when we do we will bring the full force of the law to bear on them.
‘I would also like to make a direct appeal to communities the length and breadth of the county. This offence took place in a quiet residential street.
‘Graham ran his operation right alongside people going about their law abiding business.’
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