By Tony Edwards-
An ex drug dealer has spoken of his upbringing which saw him deal drugs from the age of 12, leading him to gather 136 convictions .
James Davis, 34, opened up about his life of drugs after he was caught with a sizeable quantity of drugs which he accepted responsibility for, but which has now got his father in law, Marcus Brown in jail, after being charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
Their relationship has become strained as a result, although James makes it clear that he told police the drugs belonged to him. The fact he was driving a car registered in the business of his mother in law was a suspicious on both parties, but Mr. Davis has said his father in law had no knowledge of his plans to sell drugs on the day he was csught.
However, Mr. Davis says the fact there was no telephone communication between himself and Mr. Brown. ought to make it obvious it was not planned. Cops have been unconvinced that they could not have planned the deal before that evening, but Mr. Davis is adamant he was solely responsible for the drug deal that has seen his father in law locked up on recall and accused if of conspiring to sell class A drugs.
” They tried to get me to own up to being a driver so I get less time, but I said I couldn’t do that to him because I knew the drugs was mine and I wasn’t going to let the old man do prison time for my own action. There is a saying that if you can’t do that time don’t do the crime.
” It is weird how they caught me. They were running a surveillance on other drug dealers whom I didn’t know were doing drugs, and they somehow roped me into it. They were watching them, but they followed me outside the building and found the drugs on me, but never went into the building to search the people they were watching.
Explaining how he got into drugs, he blames an unfortunate background for this, including the fact he never had parents in his upbringing.
‘I only met my mum once in my adult life and never met my dad. He left my mum when she was pregnant, and she was never there for me growing up, so I never really had a mum. I got in with an older crowd which influenced me because I had no family, no support, and I felt my foster parents treated me differently to other children. They were putting locks in the cupboard and not letting me have any treats.
‘They couldn’t have liked me much because I wasn’t always co-operation with them because I didn’t think they had any right to tell me what to do since they were not my parents.
‘I got kicked out of primary school at a young age at 10, because I was too naughty. Deep down I wasn’t happy because all the other children had parents but I did not. I was always told I was a bad influence, but I was being influence by older boys, and I felt drugs was they way forward.
.’Davis has been in and out of jail throughout his life, and has the t-shirt to show it. He has been stabbed, had broken noses, and suffered all there is to go through. I was once earning £8 weekly, running through 12 ounzes a week. The first time I went to jail was when I was 13 years old.
‘I had to rob houses, steal cars because it was a necessity. I had to live. Iearned £27,000 on one occasion. I was in the care system and was moved from one house to another, from foster care to respite care, I was moved everywhere from Petersborugh to Cambridge to London and Blackburn. I probably moved about 80 times from the age of 12 until 16.
Although he claims to be a changed man, Davis says drugs like cannabis and magic mushrooms have their benefits and demonstrates no remorse about his past trade as a drug dealer.
”Police asked me what do you do during my interview, I told them it was a stupid question. You caught me trying to drug deal, so you know I am a drug dealer’ I told them that I am a proud drug dealer. I have self confidence and self love. If you don’t love yourself, nobody will love you’. There is more loyalty and manners in the criminal underworld than anywhere else. We got more morals than the police. The majority of police are corrupt’.
Mr Davis says he is now a changed man and has stopped selling drugs because he cannot afford to risk adding any more years unto his prison sentence.