By Eric King-
Detectives are investigating a Portslade drug dealer who threatened to kill a Brighton police officer in a courtroom outburst as he was jailed for 18 years.
Sussex Police say the threat shouted towards a Detective Sergeant and prosecution Barrister is being investigated closely. Julian Deans and prosecution barrister Caroline Haughey were in open court when Heroin dealer Louis Makai shouted: “When I get out, I’ll kill you! I wasn’t selling drugs and you know it.”
Cops plan to interview Makai before deciding whether to pass a file to the Crown Prosecution Service. Makai was convicted of conspiracy to supply heroin as part of a £12.5 million racket at Brighton Crown Court after a retrial. A previous jury at Hove Crown Court failed to reach a verdict.
Makai, a self-confessed heroin addict, denied being a drug dealer but later revealed a blade he successfully hid on him and slashed his wrists to the horror of the court.
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Makai was being taken down to down to the cells when in a burst of anger he claimed to have been “stitched up”
Sentencing him, Judge Anthony Niblett told him that he had played an integral part in a sophisticated drugs gang that ran heroin from Liverpool to Brighton and Eastbourne.
The judge said that Makai had a management or operational role with responsibility for the gang’s territory in Hove and Portslade. Five other members of the gang were jailed for 67 years earlier this year, but four of them died before they could be tried or jailed. The odds of such fate meeting four the other five convicts would be remote for most convicts, but life prospects for drug dealers in dangerous gangs are never that high given the very dangerous lifestyles they lead.
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