Leominster drug dealer jailed for 55 months after breaching suspended sentence
Paul Fish was caught dealing cocaine again despite an earlier suspended term
A Leominster drug dealer has been jailed for a total of four years and seven months, after avoiding a custodial sentence for a previous offence.
Paul Fish, 46, of Hawthorn Place in Leominster, was convicted at Worcester Crown Court on Tuesday 22nd September, after being found guilty of being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
Fish was sentenced to 43 months in prison for that offence.
A further offence of being concerned in the supply of a class B drug, cannabis, was ordered to lie on file.
A suspended sentence order Fish had received for a previous conviction for being concerned in the supply of cocaine was also activated, adding another 12 months, to run consecutively to his new offences.
This brought Fish's total sentence to 55 months in prison, West Mercia Police said.
He was also handed a forfeiture order for items seized by police, including drugs, a telephone and scales, and a deprivation of cash order for £290.
Fish was further ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £228.
Officers from Hereford CID attended his home address in March this year, and found cash, drugs and a mobile phone which had evidence of messages relating to drug dealing on it.
This followed his suspended sentence for cocaine dealing in December 2025.
Fish was arrested and charged, leading to Tuesday's sentencing at court.
Detective Sergeant Jim Moore, of Hereford CID, said Fish "was found drug dealing once again by officers despite being on a suspended term for previous similar offences".
"He did not learn his lesson, and it is right that his suspended sentence was added to his term for these offences to run consecutively," DS Moore said.
"West Mercia Police will continue to seek out, arrest and charge those responsible for dealing illegal drugs in the communities we are here to protect and serve, and put them before the courts," he said.