A former prison governor has been jailed for seven years after admitting being involved in the sale of £90,000 worth of heroin.

Jogendranath Rajcoomar, 45, of Church Lane, Wendlebury, near Bicester, was one of three men caught in an undercover police operation. He and two others handed over the heroin to a man in a Warwick hotel who turned out to be an undercover cop.

Two were arrested in the hotel room and the third was caught in the reception area.

Rajcoomar and taxi driver Anisur Rahman, 36, of Stoke-on-Trent, both admitted being involved in supplying the Class A drug.

Another taxi driver, Azhar Hussain, 36, of Stoke, denied the charge but was found guilty following a trial at Warwick Crown Court last month.

At Birmingham Crown Court yesterday, Rajcoomar and Hussain were both jailed for seven years while Rahman was jailed for five years.

David Jones, prosecuting, said Hussain was the one who actually supplied the kilo of heroin which was to be sold to a man known as "Jim" for £22,000.

The deal had been negotiated by Rajcoomar, who worked at Bullingdon Prison near Bicester before being jailed for two years for defrauding the Prison Service. The sting began when Rajcoomar came out of prison and put the word out that he was willing to take part in criminal activities including drug dealing.

Judge Anthony Nicholl told him he was a greedy man who, when given the chance to make money out of dealing in heroin, had "seized it with both hands".

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