Martyn Bowyer has secured the conviction of a Justice of The Peace for being concerned in the supply of both cocaine and diamorphine.
Purshotam Dhillon, of Hounslow in West London sat as a Lay Magistrate at Ealing, Feltham and Uxbridge Magistrates’ Courts having been appointed in 2002.
He was identified by the Metropolitan Police Service’s ‘Operation Yamata’ targeting cross London drugs networks as being a close associate of Hardeep Thind, also known as Harry Singh who, in October 2024, had been released from a lengthy custodial sentence for supplying multi kilo quantities of Class A drugs.
Upon his release, Harry Singh resumed his criminal activity which led police to Purshotam Dhillon and a number of others.
The prosecution case was based on detailed analysis of telephone and observation evidence which showed that Dhillon, a self-confessed heroin addict, was assisting Singh by allowing vehicles containing significant quantities of heroin and cocaine to be parked outside his address, thereby giving Singh’s activities an air or respectability.
Further, the magistrate allowed Singh to use his premises to ‘bag up’ dealer quantities of the drugs and packaging and scales were found in his bedroom.
Dhillon was one of a number of suspects, including Singh himself, arrested in July last year,
All, including Leandrea Lynch, Harry Singh’s former partner will be sentenced in June.
The trial at Croydon Crown Court before Mr Justice John Cavanagh lasted 18 days.
Martyn was instructed by Johnson Shittu of the CPS.
