Co-accused Nazaquat Ali, who provided a safe house for the cocaine at a house in Chard Street, New Basford, was jailed for five years today.
Albert Dibra, 38, of Joyce Avenue, Sherwood, said to have had a leading role in the enterprise, was sent to prison for seven-and-a-half years.
Nottingham Crown Court heard he had established the safe house and taken delivery of a quantity of cocaine.
Drugs courier Erlin Manahasa, 28, of no fixed address, was locked up for four-half years for delivering the cocaine.
All four men admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine between October 1 and December 1 last year.
The court was told they were involved in a significant conspiracy to supply the drug in the Nottingham area.
Dibra was operating a phone line contacted by undercover police. He contacted his friend, Khan, who met the officers with cocaine.
Sentencing the defendants, Judge Michael Stokes QC said: "You four defendants were involved, to a greater or lesser degree, in a serious conspiracy to supply cocaine in this city.
"It is clear, on the evidence, that on at least two occasions significant quantities of that drug with a high content uncut were delivered, seemingly from the south of England into Nottingham.
"The police, who have done an excellent job in this case, observed and waited until the second delivery to restock arrived and then they swooped and found 1.3 kilos of cocaine of an 88 percent purity. The fact that restocking took place at the point that it did is an indication of the nature and extent of the conspiracy."
He told Khan, who has lost his job and career as a result of the charge, his case in many respects was a tragedy.
Adrian Langdale said, in mitigation, his client had taken cocaine recreationally and got into debt. He was involved in one or two deals in November and they were isolated incidents.
Describing the case as an absolute tragedy, he added that Khan was a man who had fallen from the greatest height possible and he was acutely embarrassed and ashamed.
Digby Johnson, a partner in the Long Row business, told the Nottm Post, after Khan pleaded guilty last month, of his betrayal.
"I feel, in a sense, I've been done over, really," he said.
"It is a very salutary reminder for anyone involved in the law that a fall from grace can be a very catastrophic thing to happen. He was someone you thought you knew reasonably well. But you had someone there who has something going on that you did not know about – something that was so devastating."
Mr Johnson recalled: "Omar would talk about the ventures he had. There was nothing that would lead you to think he would have been involved in anything illegal."
Khan, 31, of William Street, Huddersfield, initially worked in the law firm's call centre.
According to the Law Society, he was admitted as a solicitor in 2012. Mr Johnson said Khan qualified as a barrister in November but continued as a solicitor in the magistrates' courts.
He did a phenomenal number of hours," he said. "He was really hard-working and keen to impress."
There had been no mention of drugs, said Mr Johnson, let alone any involvement in them.
"I'd rather be talking about him having made a flying start in Huddersfield, not about this."
Comment:
We will be keeping our eyes on this as it raises more possible corruption issues with the police.
I wonder if this would have happened had our borders not ben wide open to let this scum into the country in the first place?
Remember to vote BNP and for an EU exit in May/June - otherwise more of this filth will be coming into our country.
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