DISGRACED former prison governor Jogendranath Rajcoomar admitted supplying heroin after he was trapped by undercover police.

Rajcoomar, 45, of Church Lane, Wendlebury, near Bicester, was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1995 after being found guilty of fiddling £9,500 in living expenses from the prison service.

When the offence was committed the former governor of Bullingdon Prison was living in Oxfordshire but using an address near Hemel Hempstead - where he was governor at The Mount prison at the time - to claim lodging expenses.

David Jones, prosecuting, told Warwick Crown Court that after Rajcoomar had served his sentence for fraud he let it be known he was available for criminal acts, including drug dealing. He and taxi driver Anisur Rahman, 33, of Stoke-on-Trent, pleaded guilty to taking part in the supply of heroin with a street value of about £96,000.

Co-defendant Azhar Hussain, 36, of Stoke, denied the charge but the jury took less than two hours to find him guilty.

The three were trapped in a police sting where the buyer was an undercover policeman known as Jim and the hotel room where the hand-over took place had been fitted with hidden cameras and microphones.

Mr Jones said Rajcoomar negotiated the deal for the kilogram of heroin, which was supplied by Hussain while Rahman acted as the courier.

The court heard that Rajcoomar and Rahman arranged to meet Jim in a room at The Hilton hotel, near the Warwick junction of the M40, in August 1996. They arrived at 9.30am and went to the room, where hidden microphones recorded the heroin being handed over. The pair were arrested and taken out of the hotel through a back door and Hussain - who was in the hotel lobby keeping an eye on the deal - was then picked up by the police surveillance team. They became suspicious when he grew agitated after the others failed to reappear.

Rajcoomar's barrister applied for the recording of the deal to be left out of the evidence and he only pleaded guilty when Judge Anthony Nicholl rejected the application.

All three defendants were remanded in custody and will be sentenced at a later date.

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