A 27-year-old man from Perivale has been jailed for more than three years after admitting to running a county lines drug operation.
Elijah Henry-Gooding, of Tavistock Avenue, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs, possession of a bladed article, and three separate counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
He was sentenced to 38 months in prison at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court on 10 April 2025.
The court heard that Henry-Gooding was stopped by British Transport Police plain clothes officers in Richmond on 30 July 2024, following intelligence that linked him to a suspected county lines phone and regular drug dealing activity in and around the station.
Officers discovered £760 in cash and two mobile phones during the stop and search. One of the phones, a basic Nokia burner, was confirmed as a drugs line phone. Henry-Gooding was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
While in custody, a strip search revealed a clingfilmed package concealed in his underwear. It contained 64 individual wraps of crack cocaine and 37 wraps of heroin. A folding lock knife was also found to have been hidden internally.
Supervising officer Sgt Julian Mason said: “Now that Henry-Gooding is behind bars Richmond and its surrounding communities can breathe a sigh of relief that a prolific drug dealer is off the streets along with the illegal substances he was peddling.
“Henry-Gooding believed he was a criminal mastermind and above the law but once again the work of our County Lines Taskforce proves that we will stop at nothing in dismantling these networks and putting offenders before the courts.”
