by Tom Walsh
A Hull man has denied being a drug dealer in part of an ongoing trial of a heroin gang.
Edward Badago has been accused of being the ‘Mr Big’ of the gang but told Hull Crown Court that while he is “no saint” he was not selling drugs, the Hull Daily Mail reports.
Mr Badago, along with Adrian Owen and Jolene Thompson-Carney, have been charged with conspiracy to supply thousands of pounds of heroin to the streets of Hull every day.
The accused was arrested after a police raid on his caravan in Routh found £65,000 and he admitted that he was smoking up to £80 of heroin a day.
Mr Badago said: “I was smashing it every day for a year and a half. It felt brilliant at the time but, afterwards, I would need to get more and I would be heartbroken if I couldn’t get it.”
The distribution of class A drugs has been a problem in Hull for a number of years with a report by Hull Drug Action Team in 2005 estimating that there were 2,071 users in the city.
The trial continues.
