hereRidgeway insisted he had not seen the cocaine before and claimed he would not be forensically to it - analysis later uncovered his fingerprints on the carrier bag which contained the drugs.The defendant refused to name names but pointed towards 'a gang of men from Salford'.The court heard Ridgeway, although he had no serious drug offences to his name, had 26 previous convictions for 35 offences including for dishonesty, motoring offences, vandalism, public disorder, burglary and battery.
In October 2018 he was handed a three-and-half year jail sentence for conspiracy to burgle.Alex Leach, defending, said his client had 'laboured under a substantial debt as a result of his connection to criminal activity', adding that he owed the money.
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