A BARROW drug dealer jailed for his role in a massive illegal drugs supply plot has had his sentence almost halved.

Jordan Azli Dominic Graham received a four-year prison sentence last month for his role in a conspiracy which was smashed by police last year.

Almost £1 million worth of cocaine, cannabis and MCat was seized by officers who rounded up 18 people as part of Operation Halogen. This led to the recovery of more than 5kg of cocaine, 5kg of skunk cannabis and half a kilogram of MCat.

Gang members admitted their respective roles in the illegal enterprise - which was run from prison.

Seventeen of the 18 defendants received sentences totalling more than 100 years at Carlisle Crown Court last month. They included 29-year-old Graham, of Church Street, Barrow.

Graham was handed a four-year term by Judge Barbara Forrester after admitting conspiring to supply class B cannabis and having been said to have been part of a "dealership network" in his home town. But his sentence has been reduced after the judge looked again at the punishments she handed out to the conspirators.

Judge Forrester announced today that the terms handed down to two defendants - Graham and MCat dealer John Lawrence - were too harsh.

During a hearing at the crown court this morning, the judge said: “I asked to have this matter re-listed when I had had an opportunity of considering the sentences that I imposed on all the defendants in Operation Halogen. I came to the conclusion that my sentences in respect of Mr Graham and Mr Lawrence were perhaps on the heavy side because of course they were the only two conspirators involved solely in the conspiracy to supply class B drugs.”

Most of the others had admitted class A cocaine supply offences, the judge noted.

She added: “I came to the conclusion that the (Sentencing Council guidelines) starting point that I had taken was too high.”

As a result, Graham's sentence has been reduced to two years and four months. Lawrence, 31, of St. Helens, has seen his original term of six years slashed to two years and eight months.

* The three other Barrow men who received jail terms for cocaine supply having each admitted a cocaine supply crime were: Robert Rawlinson, 28, Earl Street, five years, four months; Kieron Fleming, 23, Low White Close, six years, eight months; and Stewart Griffiths, 31, Chester Place, three years, three months.