3:11pm Friday 18th July 2008
By Cara Lee
Two drug dealers have been jailed for 27 years collectively after they stashed £4.35m worth of heroin into their cars.
Mylton Demetriou, 31 of Frankfurt Road, Herne Hill, and football coach Sean Foster, 29 of Thakenham Close, Sydenham, were arrested after police watched Demetriou transfer a grey holdall from the boot of his VW Golf into the boot of Foster's BMW, in Frant Road, Croydon.
Officers stopped both cars after they pulled away from the road. Foster's car boot contained 54kg of heroin inside two holdalls. Both men were charged for their roles in supplying Class A drugs.
Officers later found £48,300 in cash inside Foster's bedroom wardrobe at his home.
Both men were sentenced today at Croydon Crown Court. Demetriou was jailed for 15 years after being found guilty of conspiring to supply Class A drugs.
Foster was imprisoned for 12 years for the same offence.
Detective Inspector Paul Johnson, from the Met's Projects Team, said: "This was a significant intervention into a large Class A drugs deal and these convictions are the result of some great proactive detective work by my team.
"The Specialist Crime Directorate's Projects Team continue in their efforts to successfully dismantle and disrupt these networks, stemming the flow of these damaging drugs onto the streets of London".
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