A clear bag was found hidden between his buttocks during a strip search by police, the court heard
A serial drug dealer went back to selling heroin and cocaine on the streets just months after being released from prison – and tried to hide a bag of drugs between his buttocks after being arrested by the police. But his secret hiding place was quickly uncovered during a highly revealing strip search at the police station.
Kian Bulmer later tried to pretend that £300 cash found on him was a kind-hearted birthday present to him from his aunt but he later had to confess that it was a lie, Hull Crown Court heard. Bulmer, 23, of Shipcote Road, Goole, but recently in custody on remand, admitted possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply on August 6.
Fintan Molloy, prosecuting, said that police were driving down Pasture Road, Goole, at 1pm when their attention was drawn to a grey Nissan Note car over reports of a link to drug dealing. The car was followed to a residential car park in First Avenue, Goole, where it was stopped.
Bulmer was the passenger. The driver claimed that he was in the car park to pick up a friend but he refused to give a name or an address. Bulmer was searched. He had a bag over his shoulder and there was £300 cash inside.
A wrap of drugs was on the floor near where Bulmer was standing. “It was believed to have fallen out of his shirt,” said Mr Molloy. Bulmer was handcuffed and put into the police vehicle.
He was taken to Clough Road police station, where he was strip searched. During the search, a clear bag was found hidden between his buttocks. “It appeared to be full of wraps of Class A drugs,” said Mr Molloy.
They included 19 wraps of heroin and 27 of cocaine. During police interview, Bulmer made mainly no comment replies but he claimed that the £300 cash was his monthly Universal Credit benefits money.
He had convictions for seven previous offences and he was on licence at the time after being released from a four-year prison sentence imposed on December 4, 2023 for possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply. “He was released from prison in January this year,” said Mr Molloy.
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Samantha Laws, mitigating, said that Bulmer took on a large debt for a family friend and he was working at the time to pay it off. “He knows that there is no excuse for his behaviour,” said Miss Laws.
“He was simply working to pay off a debt that was initially someone else’s debt. Before going to prison, he was addicted to crack cocaine and heroin. He has been trying to turn his life around but he knows that it is very late in the day to be doing that.”
Bulmer at first claimed that the £300 cash came from his aunt and that she had withdrawn the money to give to him for his birthday. “He would say that it wasn’t from any form of drug dealing,” said Miss Laws. Bulmer later abandoned that story, however.
“His father was addicted to Class A drugs and, as a child, he would watch his Dad inject heroin into his groin and he would watch his father overdose,” said Miss Laws. “He then became involved in the world of drugs as a result of being around drugs.”
Judge John Thackray KC told Bulmer: “Within a matter of months of being released from prison, you were involved in the supply of drugs once again. Class A drugs cause misery and destruction in our communities but, nevertheless, no doubt motivated by greed, you became involved in the supply of Class A drugs again.
“You were a street dealer, no doubt for your own financial gain. The drugs that you were in possession of were essentially a snapshot of your conduct and the cash was inevitably the proceeds of drug dealing. There was undoubtedly an expectation of significant financial advantage.”
Bulmer was jailed for four years and eight months. The £300 cash seized will be forfeited and given to the St Paul’s boxing club, Hull.