Bristol DJ faces jail for drugs conviction
Tumaini Matsimela told Bristol Crown Court the £25, 200 in cash police found at his home in Wilson Street, St Paul's, was money he made through music, not drugs.
The court has heard a police raid on the home in December 2007 netted quantities of drugs as well as cash.
Occupants Jumoke Matsimela, 24, and Abiola Matsimela, 27, both admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
Their brother Tumaini, 26, of the same address, denied possessing £2,500 worth of cannabis, cocaine and heroin with intent to supply and went on trial.
Though he was cleared of cannabis possession on a judge's direction, a jury of eight men and four women took just over one-and-a-half hours to find him guilty of the more serious charges.
The jury was then told he had previous convictions for possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply, from Swindon and Cardiff, in 2004 and 2007.
Judge Michael Longman bailed him, pending a report, for sentencing with his brothers on a date to be fixed.
Matsimela told the jury he worked as DJ Spiney and also ran Keep It Movin' Promotions, staging dance events where he sold music CDs, DVDs and T-shirts.
He said he also did weekly Tuesday night stint on Bristol radio station Passion FM.
He told the jury: "Police found £21,000 in my mum's wardrobe and that was mine. It came from DJ-ing and promoting, it was basically music. The £4,200 in my bedroom was mine; that came from one of my recent projects."
The jury was told several bags of cannabis were found in Jumoke's first floor rear bedroom.
There were also several bags of vegetable matter found in Abiola's top floor rear bedroom.
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 next door neighbour's lawn when police arrived.
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