Drug Dealer Caught Climbing From Window Jailed in Swansea

Police officers patrolling near Swansea’s St Helen’s cricket ground arrested a drug dealer after spotting him climbing out of his own window, a court has heard.

Lee Michael Paul, 37, from Brynmill, Swansea, has been jailed for three years and four months after pleading guilty to multiple drug supply charges. 🚔

When officers entered Paul’s flat on Brynmill Crescent, they discovered cannabis, mobile phones, a knuckleduster, £510 in cash, and drug dealing equipment including scales with traces of white powder.

Analysis of his mobile phones revealed “extensive messaging” showing Paul had been supplying cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamine, ketamine, cannabis, and the Class C drug alprazolam over the previous 12 months.

During his arrest, Paul claimed he had been “forced to work by an Albanian gang” and was planning to stop after paying for a car.

Defence lawyer Dan Griffiths told Swansea Crown Court: “The defendant had experienced a very difficult childhood where he had been exposed to drug taking from an early age and where drugs were normalised to a degree.”

The court heard Paul began using cannabis at a “very early age” and later expanded from dealing cannabis to supplying harder drugs, but found himself “out of his depth” and subjected to threats and violence.

Judge Catherine Richards sentenced Paul to three years and four months in prison. He will serve 40% of the sentence in custody before being released on licence.