SIX men were jailed by the Royal Court yesterday for their parts in a plot to supply 38.5 kilos of cannabis worth around £220,000 on the street.
They were arrested in May last year after a covert police surveillance operation.
The officers seized 151 so-called nine-bars of the drug, which were brought to the Island from Weymouth hidden in a hire car.Paul McEvoy (44), who was a UK prison officer living in Rugby at the time, was jailed for three years after admitting supplying 19 kilos of the drug.He was given a lower sentence because he had told the UK police about the operation.
He agreed to testify against his co-defendants and is now in the vulnerable persons unit at La Moye.Mark Ormesher (35), a bouncy castle operator from Liverpool, was jailed for five years after admitting being concerned with the supply of a class B drug.Paul Bartley (39), an unemployed man from Liverpool, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was jailed for five years.
He was described as ‘the money man’.
Article posted on 26th February, 2004 - 12.00am
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