Sidrah Nosheen, 34, was at the centre of a plot to move large amounts of heroin around the UK.
Sidrah Nosheen, 34, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, was part of an organised crime gang (Image: NCA)
A woman stashed £8.5million worth of heroin smuggled into the UK from Pakistan in her bedroom. Sidrah Nosheen, 34, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, was part of an organised crime gang which sold the Class A drug around the country.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said Nosheen played a “crucial” role in the gang. Heroin hidden inside clothes, including leather jackets, was delivered to her home on Woodside Road, where she removed it and put it in 1kg bags for dealing. She was arrested in June last year, when officers found a heroin processing plant in her back bedroom.
The NCA said officers found 85kg of heroin, a wallpaper pasting table, scales, tools and buckets in the raid, along with boxes of clothing wrapped in plastic.
Analysis of Nosheen’s phone uncovered hundreds of messages with an accomplice in Pakistan about supplying heroin in the UK.
Nosheen also ferried drugs to contacts around the UK and collected £250,000 from a criminal in Bradford.
She was due to stand trial at Bradford Crown Court but was sentenced to 21 years and six months on Tuesday at the same court after changing her plea and admitting conspiracy to supply and import heroin.
Nosheen was sentenced to 21 years and six months at Bradford Crown Court. (Image: PA Images)
Rick MacKenzie, NCA senior investigating officer, said in a statement: “To outward appearances, Sidrah Nosheen lived an unremarkable life in Bradford.
“But the truth is that she was at the centre of a plot to move large amounts of heroin around the country, dealing in the addiction and death that are inseparable from the Class A drugs trade.
“She didn’t give a second’s thought to the damage heroin wreaks on society. She was solely interested in making money.”
He added that the NCA works at home and abroad to protect the public from the threat of Class A drugs.
