Norwich dealer jailed over Norwich-Liverpool drugs line

Joshua Fouche-Bolt, 23, was found to be running two linked mobile phone numbers after police seized a handset from him during an investigation into an assault. 

Messages proved it was used to sell drugs in Norwich but had also been used to arrange at least one trip to Liverpool which prosecutors said was to purchase crack and heroin.

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Norwich Crown Court was told the phone number - dubbed the ‘Scouse line’ - had primarily been managed by a co-defendant Connor Quinn who was sentenced to five years and five months last October. 

A 16-year-old, who cannot be named, was also sentenced at youth court for conspiracy to supply drugs after evidence showed both he and Quinn had travelled to Liverpool with £10,000 in cash.

Prosecutors said messages - including some to his own mother - had shown that Fouche-Bolt had been in charge of the line for a two-month period.

Joshua Fouche-Bolt was sentenced to 42 months at Norwich Crown Court (Image: PA)

He pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy to supply class A drugs between December 2022 and March 2023.

The offences were committed while he was still subject to a suspended two-year jail sentence for supplying drugs in Ipswich.

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Recorder Richard Conley was told he was a homeless addict at the time and had been paid in drugs and accommodation.

He sentenced him to three and a half years in prison.

Another co-defendant Skye Goodwin, 20, of Weston Road in Norwich, was given a 12-month community order after admitting being concerned in the supply of class B drugs.

Messages on her phone had included instructions to deliver ketamine and cannabis to addresses across Norwich.

Oliver Haswell, mitigating, said she was currently pregnant and had “turned something of a corner” having got a job in a dementia care home.