Teacher tells court that claims he ran drugs gang are 'lies'

Teacher tells court that claims he ran drugs gang are 'lies' "A teacher accused of running a major drugs gang has told a jury that the claims are ‘lies’.

Mohammed Sarwar is alleged to have controlled an organised crime group involved in the ‘large-scale’ supply of cocaine while teaching information technology at Burnage Media Arts College in Manchester.

The bulk of the evidence in the case comes from a witness called Ben Davidson, who alleges that Mr Sarwar recruited him as a drugs courier in February 2008, while he was renting a property in Stalybridge from his brother Iqbal.

Giving evidence in his own defence, Mr Sarwar, 30, said Mr Davidson’s claims were ‘nonsense’. He told the jury that the allegations had been ‘conjured’ up by Mr Davidson, who has admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, and another convicted dealer, Mark Hunt, who were trying to ‘blame it on me’.

The jury has heard evidence that Mark Hunt was a drug dealer during the period that Mr Sarwar is alleged to have been running the crime group."

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