Drug dealer appeal bid fails (From Gazette)

Drug dealer appeal bid fails

7:00am Saturday 20th March 2010 in

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A DRUG dealer who was caged for 16 years over a plot to flood the capital's streets with ecstasy has failed in a challenge to his conviction at the Court of Appeal.

George Arthur Stokes, 63, of Skelmersdale Road, Clacton, was jailed last January after a jury found him guilty of conspiring with others to supply the drugs.

Southwark Crown Court had heard he was at the apex of a pyramid of conspirators dealing in vast quantities of ecstasy.

Stokes' lawyers launched a bid to overturn his conviction at the Court of Appeal on Friday, but Mr Justice Walker threw out all of the arguments.