Conman jailed after making £100,000 selling washing powder to drug users who believed it was cocaine
Jamie Lee Taylor got £1,000 a day flogging bags of the bogus Class A drug to party-goers
A CONMAN made up to £100,000 selling washing powder to drug users who thought it was cocaine.
Jamie Lee Taylor got £1,000 a day flogging bags of the bogus Class A drug to party-goers and addicts at £20 a time.
He went to nightspots where users were buying real drugs and passed his detergent off as coke.
Taylor, 27, of Middlesbrough, admitted fraud and offering to supply cocaine between July and September.The case was adjourned for a week before Taylor was jailed for two years and seven months at Teesside Crown Court.
He was told it would have been five years if it had been cocaine.
Judge Simon Bourne-Arton told him: “I have to make allowance for it being washing powder.”
