Wolverhampton dealer had £1m property empire

Dec 19 2008 by Steve Bradley, Birmingham Mail

A BLACK Country man who built up a £1million property empire selling heroin, cocaine and cannabis has been jailed for 13 years.

Christopher Reid owned eight houses and two Porsches – one with a personalised Y9 RDY plate.

The 34-year-old, of Julian Road, Wolverhampton, who declared his income was just £12,000 a year through cleaning cars, was told by Judge Michael Dudley it was clear he was the “Mr Big” of a significant drug-dealing enterprise.

He said the scale of the operation was demonstrated by the high lifestyle enjoyed by Jamaica-born Reid adding, “unusually, but happily in this case, Mr Big is sitting in the dock.”

The Judge said he regarded Reid as the “orchestrator” of the conspiracy to sell the controlled drugs and recommended he was deported back to Jamaica when he had completed his sentence.

It was an aggravating feature of the case, he went on, that the