Suffolk criminals jailed at Ipswich Crown Court this week

Leroy Clarke

Leroy Clarke was sentenced to 16 months (Image: Suffolk police) Ipswich Crown Court heard how the owner of Middleton Garage, near Saxmundham, arrived at the premises to find a door forced open and a safe forcibly removed from a wall. 

A cash tin containing £50 and about £17,000 worth of tools had been stolen in the raid. 

Thirty-four-year-old Leroy Clarke, of no fixed address, was described as desperate for money at the time of the burglary and Judge Emma Peters said it was a tragedy that a relatively young man had 126 previous convictions. 

Clarke admitted burglary and driving while disqualified after he was seen driving a Skoda in Wickham Market the month before the burglary. 

He was sentenced to 16 months in jail and banned from driving for 38 months. 

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Mirban Pasha

Mirban Pasha was jailed for two years (Image: Suffolk police) Officers in Sudbury stopped Mirban Pasha after noticing a white Polestar vehicle which had previously been linked to drug supply in the area. 

The 34-year-old Albanian national, who had been living in the UK for 11 years, was found with two wraps of cocaine, cash, a mobile phone and a set of keys for an address in Melford Road. 

A further large quantity of cocaine and drug paraphernalia as well as more than £8,000 in cash was found during a search of the property. 

Judge David Wilson sentenced Pasha to 42 months for being involved in the supply of cocaine which was reduced to 28 months in light of his earlier guilty plea. 

He was also sentenced to four months to be served concurrently for possession of criminal property and received six points on his licence for driving without insurance. 

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Gioulian Kola

Gioulian Kola was sentenced to four years (Suffolk police)Ipswich Crown Court heard how Gioulian Kola illegally returned to the UK after being deported while serving a three and a half year sentence for drug dealing in 2019. 

Kola, of Bradford Road in Shipley, was stopped by police while driving a car in Mildenhall in October of last year. 

Prosecutor Simeon Wallis said Kola told the officers that what they were looking for was in a compartment behind the steering wheel.

They found 30 bags worth of cocaine worth £1,500, £360 in cash and an iPhone containing messages consistent with the postcode drug delivery model. 

Kola admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply, entering the UK in breach of a deportation order and driving without insurance. 

He was jailed for 40 months for the drug supply offence and eight months for the deportation offence to run consecutively.