Adrian Nagenda, 22, was jailed for dealing cocaine and heroin

Footage shows the moment a boarding school old boy-turned drug runner was arrested at his Salford home.

Adrian Nagenda, 22, was one of three gang members jailed for dealing cocaine and heroin at Manchester Crown Court on Friday (May 2).

The former boarder admitted his part in the ‘criminal enterprise’ supplying class A drugs and involved the possession of ‘multiple firearms and ammunition’, and was jailed for 11 years and ten months.

Nagenda, of Liverpool Road in Irlam, admitted conspiracy to rob, possession of a prohibited firearm, conspiracy to possess a firearm without a certificate and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

He operated alongside Phillip Wakeford, 49, Joshua Gallier, 23, under the direction of a man called Jason Nunes, who is ‘yet to be apprehended’, the court heard.

Adrian Nagenda(Image: GMP)

In March, the Manchester Evening News reported how Nunes’ sobbing girlfriend, Laura Taylor, 26, was jailed for keeping one of the guns and ‘bagging up’ cocaine for him.

The trio ‘used’ college students and ‘vulnerable’ adults as part of the plot to supply heroin and cocaine, and obtained the guns as part of spiralling gang-related violence, the court heard.

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They were caught out after a member of the public found ammunition in the car park of a supermarket on Fitzwarren Street in Salford. The previous night, police had attempted to stop a vehicle in the area but the car drove off and was abandoned after crashing into a wall in the car park.

CCTV showed Wakeford appeared to drive the car back to his mother’s address on Cromwell Road in Eccles. Officers later raided the home and found a pistol complete with a magazine and ammunition inside a brown paper bag, three other pistols one of them with a silencer, a Rizzini 12-bore shotgun which had been shortened, and nine bullets.

Laura Taylor, Joshua Gallier, Phillip Wakeford and Adrian Nagenda who have all been jailed(Image: GMP)

The police investigation also found that, a year before, Nagenda had knifed a rival in the thigh, his victim requiring seven stitches in hospital. He had also plotted to attack another drug dealer at gunpoint for £20,000, the court heard.

The 22-year-old, who had no previous convictions, dealt with mental health difficulties in his youth. His parents ‘decided to send you to boarding school no doubt with the best of intentions’ but without regard for ‘whether in fact that was what you needed’, said Judge Woodward. She said she had ‘no doubt’ his use of drugs ‘led you to become involved in criminality’ and the ‘supply of class A drugs’.

He had ‘expressed remorse’ and ‘some insight’ into his crimes, the court heard.

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