6 yrs for enriching ex-dealer with high-purity cocaine - Sherwood

A convicted drug dealer is now "paying for his folly" after he was jailed for six years for having high-purity cocaine in his flat just months after his release.

Courtney Voce, 27, was found guilty on Wednesday, March 25, after a trial of possessing 19.83 grams of cocaine with a 73 per cent purity.

He was found guilty of supplying cocaine between June 3 and October 8.

On Thursday, March 26, he learned his fate at Nottingham Crown Court.

Recorder Michael P. Elsom said before sentencing: "He is paying now for his folly of committing offences within a short time of his release."

Police began searching Voce's Mayo Road home, in Sherwood, on October 8 last year, the jury had heard.

They discovered the cocaine inside a McDonalds bag in a bin along with a eaten McWhiffy.

Voce was randomly pacing up and down the room and threw a bag in a bin, said one officer in a statement.



Another said the defendant was extremely agitated in the small single-occupancy room managed by a housing association.

Voce was handcuffed and arrested for possession of Class A with intent to supply.

He was interviewed by police on tape and most of the time he answered 'no comment' to questions put to him.

He then gave a handwritten statement saying he did not know what was in the McDonald's bag.

Mayo was released on licence from his last sentence in June.

He was supposed to stay on the straight and narrow – or face going back to jail.

Now he will have to serve nearly the full seven years of the previous sentence, after he was recalled to prison due to the new offence.

The new six-year sentence is concurrent.

Recorder Elsom told Voce: "You were found in possession of drugs. You have forfeited your licence."