Deportation for drug courier

Evert White, aged 32, sneaked back into the country months after being deported for drugs offences.

He was today starting a seven-year sentence after being jailed by a judge who said Wolverhampton had already seen enough of him. Evert, of no fixed address, was pulled over on March 7 near The Mermaid pub, on Bridgnorth Road, Wightwick.

Police found almost 100g of heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine in a bag stuffed under his seat in the Ford Focus.

He gave two sets of false details to police, and yesterday pleaded guilty to three charges relating to the supply of the drugs.

But it yesterday emerged that he was jailed for four years in March 2005 for drugs offences.

Evert was given early release on October 10, 2006 and deported on the same day.

Recorder Mr Patrick Thomas QC said that White was moving drugs from "the main players" to street dealers.

He told Evert that the Home Office would deport him at the end of his latest spell behind bars.

He jailed him for six years, and ordered him to serve another year of his earlier five-year term.

The Recorder said: "If you return to this country, you will be in even more trouble.

"If you are ever, ever involved in drug dealing in this country again, you will expect a sentence that will make this sentence look like being sent to nursery school."

White claimed that his two young children in Jamaica would be at risk if he did not act as a courier in the UK to pay off a debt.

But the Recorder said: "There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for dealing in Class A drugs, whatever the pressures on you.

"By dealing in these drugs, you were spreading misery and sickness within the community that had already seen enough of you."

Evert was brought to justice by Operation Engage, an elite team of police targeting the city's drugs and gun gangs.