BROTHERS who were caught with 7,500 wraps of heroin and cocaine and more than half a kilo of cannabis with a street value of more than £81,000 have been jailed.

Police went to the home of Yunus and Yusuf Ali the day after a violent stabbing in Clifton Street in November last year. As well as seizing the drugs they also found a collection of brand new designer gear.

Now 24-year-old Yunus has been jailed for six years and four months.Yusuf, 20, got three years.

Colin Meeke, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court police went to their Gladstone Street home on November 4. PC Neil Parsons was at the rear of the property and saw one man, thought to be Yusuf, fleeing from a window. Yunus then came out with a large bag containing packages which he was hurling into neighbouring gardens.

After the officer drew his taser Yunus was subdued and arrested and PC Parsons retrieved the packages. “He realised there was a very large quantity of class A drugs: in fact some 7,500 wraps of controlled drugs,” Mr Meeke said. They had all been wrapped in cigarette papers and are thought to have weighed 673g for the heroin and 55g for the cocaine. He said that samples had been unwrapped and others put on the scales in the wrapping.

“It would have been a herculean task to unwrap the drugs: indeed it must have been to wrap it,” he said.

When the police searched Yusuf’s room they found £5,135 in cash in his passport bag, £3,000 in coins and a recent bank deposit slip for £1,900. A few days earlier he had transferred £500 to his brother. He had recently spent £981 on Versace clothing and £894 on concert tickets.

His phone showed that he had mainly been involved in the packaging of the drugs, said Mr Meeke.

Yunus was found to have £1,800 in cash as well as a wardrobe of designer clothes, but no apparent above board earnings. Mr Meeke said both brothers were unemployed and had no other form of legitimate income. There was also 607g of skunk cannabis, worth £6,000, in the house.

Yunus admitted three counts of possession with intent to supply and Yusuf three of being concerned in the supply of drugs.

Chris Smyth, for Yunus, said his client had been jailed in the past for drug dealing, but that was cannabis. There was no suggestion anyone else was involved, pair were running their own little operation. At the time Yunus had been working at a restaurant on a cash in hand basis.

Emma Handslip, for Yusuf, said he played the lesser role in the operation and had learning difficulties. His wife was due to give birth in April and social services were already involved.

Judge Robert Pawson said “It seems to me unrealistic that the only two people involved in this operation was you two.It is unbelievable that you two between you would unload on the street 7,500 wraps of drugs.

“You were involved in your own way in a reasonably large scale drug dealing operation in the Swindon area.”

Police inquiries into the disorder on Clifton Street continue. Det Con Craig Rathbone said: “This amount of class A drug had the potential to do serious harm to a large number of vulnerable people within our community and is likely to have been associated with serious violence.The pair had been profiting from their criminality for some time, showing no regard for the vulnerable people at the end of the drugs supply chain.

“I am pleased that we have been able to intercept and dismantle this supply chain, preventing these class A drugs from reaching Wiltshire’s streets and into the hands of vulnerable users. I am also pleased that both individuals have been given custodial sentences for their actions."