TWELVE men and a woman have been jailed for a total of more than 80 years for their roles in the Sully Line “ring and bring” drug dealing operation that netted up to £4 million in just over a year.

The line, that was first set up in 2012, received 229,000 calls between July 2017 and August last year, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

It was centred on Bradford’s Lumb Lane area and manned 24 hours a day, supplying heroin and crack cocaine to a stream of addicts who rung from phone boxes.

“It was a business that never closes,” Judge Jonathan Rose said, labelling the “massive” trade in Class A drugs wicked and greedy.

Six men were sentenced for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.

Mohammed Assan, 26, of Quaker Street, Undercliffe, Bradford, was jailed for 11 years and four months.

He and his brother, Mohammed Ayaz, 29, of the same address, were directors of the Sully Line, playing a leading role in its operation. Ayaz was imprisoned for 13 years and two months.

A third director, Tassawar Aslam, 34, of Victor Street, Heaton, Bradford, was locked up for ten years.

A storeman for the line, Amir Rehman, 28, of Lumb Lane, Manningham, was jailed for eight and a half years. He earned £700 a week warehousing the drugs at his home address. When it was searched by the police, officers seized 561 deals of Class A drugs worth £3,500.

Mujahid Mahmood, 28, of Hollins Street, Bradford, was jailed for ten years. Described as a “trusted lieutenant” for the operation, he fled the country part-way through his trial. He was believed to have flown to Islamabad and will serve his sentence if he is arrested on a warrant.

The ring’s “communications man” Sheraz Mahmood, 31, of Airedale College Terrace, Undercliffe, Bradford, was jailed for five years and four months. His role was to keep the Sully Line operational by replacing SIM cards and putting calls diverts on to the line.

Seven defendants were jailed for supplying Class A drugs by street dealing for the Sully Line.

Hareem Hussain, 22, of Charteris Road, Lower Grange, Bradford, was locked up for three years and nine months. A teenager at the time, Judge Rose labelled her “a dishonest woman” who had lied to the police and the court.

Mohammed Vanid Khan, 45, of Cumberland Road, Lidget Green Bradford, who was the driver when Hussain was handing out drugs, was jailed for four years and two months.

Mohmmed Zahid, 27, of Manor Farm Gardens, Middleton, Leeds, was locked up for two years and ten months.

Muhammed Asfan, 37, of Lynfield Drive, Heaton, Bradford, was jailed for two years and two months.

Former solider David Coates, 35, who is currently serving a jail sentence for drug dealing, was imprisoned for four years.

Shazad Saleem, 41, of Duchy Drive, Heaton, Bradford, was locked up for 18 months.

Luqman Nazir, 28, of Farcliffe Place, Heaton, Bradford, was convicted by a jury of two offences of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs. He was jailed for three and a half years.

Talented footballer, Malikai Hodgson, 21, of Springhead Road, Thornton, Bradford, who pleaded guilty to supplying Class A drugs, was spared an immediate jail sentence.

Judge Rose said that Hodgson was “a young man of good character who recognises what a dreadful mistake he has made.”

Hodgson was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with 280 hours of unpaid work and a four-month curfew order.

Judge Rose commended the police investigation team for their “intelligent and determined work” to close down the Sully Line.