County lines drugs gang boss set up new route while on licence

A 'county lines' drug baron and his girlfriend accomplice led a life of luxury as they flooded Wiltshire with crack cocaine and heroin, a court heard.

Linford Goode, 32 and Sara Kokot, 31, ran the 'Frank Line' operation dealing to over 800 customers in the Swindon and Marlborough areas from a base in London.

Goode was out on licence from a ten year dealing sentence when he starting selling drugs again with Bosnian born Kokot, who fled to the UK from Sarajevo as a child in 1992.

Linford Goode, 32, ran the 'Frank Line' operation dealing to over 800 customers in the Swindon and Marlborough areas from a base in London. He was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to supply class A drugs

Sara Kokot, 31, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years' in prison

Linford Goode, 32, ran the 'Frank Line' operation dealing to over 800 customers in the Swindon and Marlborough areas from a base in London. He was jailed for 19 years. His girlfriend Sara Kokot, 31, right, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years' in prison

When officers raided his home he was found in possession of a £21,000 Rolex watch and £20,000 in cash.

The couple travelled to Swindon from London in luxury cars on more than twenty occasions to keep an eye the business they ran with Tiffany Smart, 27, Dean Black, 50, Scott Cadder, 33, and Shaun Smith, 30,

Smart was the manager of the local dealers and hosted Goode and Kokot each time they visited to collect their profits and resupply the operation.

Cadder, Black, and Smith operated as local drug dealers for the gang in Swindon and Marlborough.

Black, based in Marlborough, used the Frank Line as a wholesaler, selling £1,000 of drugs per week.

Cadder sold drugs out of his home in East Swindon until he was jailed for knife possession in July 2019.

Smith had worked as a dealer but was fired after stealing either drugs or money from the gang.

James Browne, prosecuting, said: 'The Frank Line had hundreds of addicts using it and it was the most popular line in the area.

'It was fairly described as an industrial scheme which was ensuring a steady stream of cocaine and heroin to addicts in Swindon and Marlborough.'

Goode had a £55,000 car in addition to his Rolex and kept the £20,000 as working capital in a safe in his house.

'Linford Goode was obviously the overall controller of the Frank Line, an experienced dealer he had operated this kind of scheme before and was personally in receipt of the rewards,' Mr Browne said.

Kokot drove Goode to Swindon on each of his visits and had a previous conviction for possession of ammunition without a certificate.

He said:' On June 6 of 2017 she entered a plea of guilty for possession of ammunition without a certificate related to the finding of a single round of ammunition in a plant pot related to the discovery of a male at her address involved in a much more serious offence.

'The term of imprisonment was one of 12 months, it is not possible to say she was in licence during the indictment period.'

The man found at Kokot's address in that offence was her previous boyfriend Robert Lewis, then 41, who robbed Sir Philip Green's half naked daughter-in-law of £2 million worth of jewellery at her £18 million home by Lord's cricket ground.

Lewis broke into the home and threatened Magda Palos, 37, as she was getting out of the shower wrapped in just a towel.

Mrs Palos – wife of Sir Philip's stepson, Brett Palos – was subjected to a terrifying ten minute ordeal in the presence of her six-year-old daughter.

Lewis brandished a pair of 12-inch wire cutters to make her hand over the watches and other valuables after forcing his way in

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