Prison For Crack Dealer Who Leapt From First Floor Window To Escape Police

A crack cocaine and heroin dealer who leapt from the first-floor window of a Cambridge home has been jailed.

Cambridge neighbourhood officers were on patrol in May last year (2020) when they spotted someone acting suspiciously outside a home in Crawford Close and suspected a drug deal was taking place.

They used powers to enter the property and found 24-year-old Lamin Jawo, jumping from one of the upstairs windows on to a bus with an orange carrier bag stashed with 70 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine.

When Jawo was searched he was found with further bundles of class A drugs and more than £1,000 in cash.

Inside the house, officers also found 18-year-old Malik Mclean, from London, with a small number of class A wraps and two knives sat next to him on the sofa.

At Cambridge Crown Court Jawo was sentenced to two years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin.

Mclean was sentenced to two years, suspended for two years, after also pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin.

Detective Constable Jess Day said: “Jawo and Mclean were travelling from London to Cambridge to deal drugs. Drug dealing brings with it a whole host of criminality to our county as well as harm to the most vulnerable people in our community. We’re committed to finding and putting these people before the courts so they can be sentenced for the crimes they have committed.”