Man caught using North Wales holiday park caravan as drug dealing base

A Merseyside man was found to have been using his caravan at a holiday park as a base to sell drugs from.

Liam Mousdell from Prescot sold around £11,000 worth of heroin and crack cocaine from a caravan in Rhyl, Wales.

Police followed a drug user as she drove into the holiday park on June 7th, and approached the driver when the car came to a stop close to where Mousdell was staying.

Officers approached the vehicle parked up on Gwynfryn Avenue to find the woman’s phone was constantly ringing – which they then took from her.

As reported in Wales Online, the sentencing hearing at Caernarfon Crown Court on Monday heard an officer then answered the call, to hear Mousdell, 24, ask: “Where are you?”

The officer told him he was on the road to which the defendant replied: “Give me five minutes.”

When Mousdell arrived, he knocked on the car window but when he noticed the police approaching him he tried to get away.

The defendant was then detained where he was found in possession of a rock of crack cocaine and another phone, which was ringing. He then tried to reset the phone to a factory setting but was stopped so no data was lost.

He was linked to both of the phones having used them to call his mum and cell site analysis linked him to the caravan park. Both phone numbers were linked to conversations with drug users.

A search took place of Mousdell’s caravan where his passport and documentation were found, as well as cannabis, scales and cutting agents. 

Prosecutor Laura Knightly, said the messages revealed Mousdell had sold in the region of £11,000 of heroin and crack cocaine within a month.

Mousdell, of Beaconsfield, Prescot, later pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of class B drugs.

In mitigation, Simon Killeen said his client was realistic he would be receiving an immediate custodial sentence, but he was remorseful for his offending.

Delivering the sentence, Judge Niclas Parry, said: “This is another case of people from the North West of England blazing into north Wales, targeting deprived areas, areas affected badly by drug illness and criminality and then leave, taking cash and leaving behind local people suffering the consequences. 

“It was lucrative enough for you to afford a caravan situated in north Wales as a base where the drugs could be sold.”

Mousdell was sentenced to a total of 27 months imprisonment. He will serve half the sentence in custody before he is released to serve the remainder of his sentence on licence.