Purshotam Dhillon, who was sitting in courts in Ealing Feltham and Uxbridge, had drugs and cash stored at his home in Hounslow
Drugs were weighed and packed inside Purshotam Dhillon’s home in Hounslow(Image: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire)
A London magistrate who helped run a drug supply operation involving heroin and crack cocaine across the capital has been jailed.
Purshotam Dhillon, 59, offered an “air of respectability” when he allowed gang boss Hardeep Thind to use his home in Hounslow, west London, as a base of operations. Dhillon stored drugs and cash at the property.
The magistrate sat at courts in Ealing, Feltham, and Uxbridge. Dhillon helped Thind keep up his “Hadi” drugs line, which sold heroin and crack cocaine, while the gang boss was in prison.
On Thursday, Dhillon, Thind, of Southall, and two co-defendants, Bikramjit Brar, 46, from Hayes, and Leandrea Lynch, 49, also from Hayes, were all sentenced for their parts in the drug supply operation.
Dhillon was sentenced to seven years in prison, Thind – who went by the name Harry Singh – was handed a 12-year sentence and Brar was jailed for three years and four months. Lynch was given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence.
Detective Inspector Mark Gavin, from the Met’s Specialist Crime, said: “This was a complex and far-reaching investigation that uncovered a well-established organised crime network responsible for supplying significant quantities of class A drugs across London.
“The team’s extensive work enabled us to identify, disrupt and dismantle a group whose actions would have been causing serious harm to communities.
“As a serving magistrate, Dhillon abused a position of trust in the most serious way. This case demonstrates that no-one is above the law, and those who engage in criminality will be held accountable.”
The Met said it started investigating the “Hadi” drugs line in January 2024, and identified Thind as the “central figure”. Thind was serving a 17-year prison sentence for conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine as well as for possession of a Skopion submachine gun.
He was directing operations from an open prison using a mobile phone and even went on to expand his operation after his release from jail in October 2024. Dhillon, who is a drug addict, was identified as a key lieutenant, while Brar was involved in distribution of the drugs and Lynch acted as a runner.
They were arrested in co-ordinated police raids on July 1 last year, when officers discovered Dhillon had allowed a van linked to Thind which contained large quantities of heroin to be parked outside his house. Drugs valued at £174,000 were seized and there was evidence of drugs being weighed and packed inside Dhillon’s home.
Singh and Brar pleaded guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs and Dhillon and Lynch were convicted of the same charges after a trial.
