They were told in the Royal Court that Michael Anthony Waite, a fake watch salesman from Derby, agreed with unemployed former drug addict Thomas Derek Mawer and his fiancée, Meena Broom, to sell heroin in Jersey for five times the UK street price.
Crown Advocate Matthew Jowett, prosecuting Waite and Broom for conspiracy to supply heroin, said that when Waite was arrested after arriving in the Island on 19 January he had £115 in his wallet and a further £2,300 in Jersey £20 notes in an envelope in his pocket.
He told a jury that during their two weeks in Jersey Mawer and Broom, both from the UK, had gone on spending sprees, rented a St Peter flat and bought an £800 scooter – although neither had a job.
‘In the course of 11 days Waite, a man on Jobseekers Allowance, had banked £8,000 in cash into his account.
When he arrived in Jersey he had £2,300 in Jersey £20 notes – not bad going for someone who had been in the Island for a couple of hours,’ Advocate Jowett said.
