10-year sentences upheld in BD20 drug case

TDT | Manama

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BD20 sting ends with 10-year jail terms for a doctor and an accomplice after the Court of Cassation upheld their drug-dealing convictions.

The ruling leaves intact the first-instance judgment, already affirmed by the High Criminal Court of Appeal.

Each man received ten years’ imprisonment and a BD5,000 fine. A third defendant was jailed for six months and fined BD100 for drug use.

The court ordered the confiscation of the seized items.

Report

The case began with a report that occupants of a car had placed items in the sewer pipe of a house in Riffa.

Checks linked the car to the third defendant.

He was arrested under a Public Prosecution warrant.

Questioned, he admitted drug use and said he obtained drugs from the first and second defendants. He agreed to help the police and, under supervision, phoned the first defendant, a doctor, to request a quantity of the narcotic ‘CBD’ for BD20, with handover near the private hospital where the doctor worked.

Plastic container

At the rendezvous the doctor recognised him. As officers closed in, the doctor threw a plastic container to the ground, and he was arrested. The container held a liquid believed to be a narcotic.

A search of his car found further plastic containers with the same substance.

He said the seized items belonged to the second defendant, who had left them with him before travelling.

Return

The second defendant was arrested later on his return through the land border crossing.

Inquiries indicated the first and second defendants held drugs for sale and personal use, while the third defendant was a user.

Prosecution records show the third defendant admitted buying drugs twice from the first defendant and many times from the second.