Drugs found in police raid on Bristol home
A police raid on a St Paul's home netted drugs and cash, a court heard.
Bristol Crown Court was told a search warrant was executed under the Misuse of Drugs Act at the house in Wilson Street in December 2007.
Occupants Jumoke Matsimela, 24, and Abiola Matsimela, 27, both admit possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
Their brother Tumaini, 26, of the same address, denies possessing £2,500 of cannabis, cocaine and heroin with intent to supply.
James Ward, prosecuting, told the jury police forced the front door of the property to make a rapid entry and preserve evidence.
Police were struck by a "stench" of cannabis, and digital scales as well as just over £26,000 was discovered.
The jury was told several bags of cannabis were found in Jumoke's first floor rear bedroom, including a Tesco bag containing £2,391 worth and an M&S bag with £1,035 worth.
in Abiola's top floor rear bedroom, two plastic bags containing a total of £29.31 worth were found.
In Tumaini's room police found bags containing around 4g of cannabis. It is the prosecution's case that a silver Prada bag, found to contain Class A drugs, was thrown out of a back window of the house on to the nextdoor neighbour's lawn.
Police conducted two interviews with Tumaini, in which they invited him to put his account forward regarding what was found at his home, and he gave "no comment" answers to both sets of questions.
The jury heard that no DNA was found on the Prada bag linking anyone to it, and Tumaini's fingerprints were not detected on any of the drugs. As well as that, there were no "dealer's lists" normally associated with drug pushers, cataloguing amounts of drugs dealt to which customers.
Of mobile phones found, the one associated with Tumaini contained messages concerning the preparation of CDs, and references to Bristol nightclubs Panache and Lakota, but nothing resembling drug dealing.
In contrast, the jury was told that an inquiry found on Abiola's phone referred to "ounces" – which suggested a reference to heroin or cocaine rather than cannabis.
The case continues at Bristol Crown Court.











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