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Jailed: Hoxton dealers who set up drugs delivery hotline promising 'Magic, anytime, anywhere'

Jailed: Arif Ahmed
Jailed: Arif Ahmed

Three east London dealers who set up their own dedicated drug delivery hotline promising “Magic, anytime, anywhere” have been jailed.

The trio provided an order-by-phone delivery service around Hoxton, handing out business cards with their slogan and a number to call.

Over a one-month period, they handed out MDMA, ketamine, cocaine and cannabis to eager punters who called the “Magic” number and left their address.

When police checked out the number, they found it registered to 21-year-old Arif Ahmed.

Magic: Kasru Abdul will be spending a spell in jail
Magic: Kasru Abdul will be spending a spell in jail

During a search of his address in Durward Street, Whitechapel, on April 6 they found around £4,000 cash and a box containing over 100 business cards. Officers also found six wraps of white powder on Ahmed.

His accomplice Karim Adbul, 21, of Heneage Street, Whitechapel, was arrested near Hoxton Square on the same day after he supplied Class A drugs to two undercover officers.

Karim Abdul: The trio ran a drugs hotline called Magic
Karim Abdul: The trio ran a drugs hotline called Magic

When the car he was driving was searched, they found a quantity of cash, more Magic business cards, 30 wraps of Class A drugs and eight bags of cannabis.

The third man, Kasru Abdul, 23, of Raine Street, Whitechapel, was arrested a week later in Romford.

At Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, the men were jailed for a total of 14 years after admitting a string of drug offences.

Ahmed and Karim Abdul were sentenced to four-and-a-half years each while Kasru Abdul was jail for five years.

Detective Sergeant Nick Hamer, of the Met’s Trident and Area Command, said: “There was no caution practiced by this network.

“Anyone who called the number simply provided their location and the drugs were brought to them.”