Black Country county lines gang jailed for more than 17 years
A judge at Wolverhampton Crown Court has spoken out about the scourge of Class A drugs after jailing four people for over 17 years in total for their part in a county lines operation in the Black Country.
Jaswant Singh Rai aged 28; Ajminder Shocker, aged 45; Lee Thompson, aged 41 and Rachel Wellings, aged 40 have all been jailed for various offences relating to class A drugs.
Jailing them for their part in a crime which saw West Midlands Police seize £20,000 of cocaine and heroin after raids across Tipton, Wednesbury and Walsall in July 2023, Judge John Edwards told all four this was 'Serious crime and each of you were playing for high stakes."
He said: "Cocaine and heroin are drugs which cause tremendous misery in society.
"On their own they cause addiction, a change in character which we have seen in these cases and abject misery not just to the user but their families and friends.
