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Gangster’s glam moll who supplied pals with cocaine, ketamine and ecstasy spared jail

She asked the dealer ‘can we have 5 bags of coke and 3 bags of ket please’

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A gangster’s glamorous moll who helped run a ketamine drug ring has avoided jail after a judge found her to be a “an intelligent, hardworking, insightful, and remorseful individual”.

Pavandeep Nijjar (29) a former fashion buyer and recruitment specialist was said to have treated ketamine, cocaine and ecstasy “like a shopping commodity” as she peddled drugs to her friends through underworld associates of boyfriend Charlie Jacob.

A judge at Manchester Crown Court compared her activities, carried out over a three-year period between 2019 and 2022, to a shopper going to a supermarket and asking friends “does anybody want anything?”.

The university graduate, known as ‘Pav’, was identified when police arrested her 27-year-old boyfriend Jacob over a £40,000 shipment of MDMA which was intercepted by border force officers.

Jacob was jailed for 10 years at an earlier hearing after he admitted conspiracy to supply, cocaine, ketamine, cannabis and MDMA.

When her phone was examined during the investigation into Jacob, investigators discovered a series of incriminating messages she had exchanged with pals including one while she was on holiday in Croatia in which she placed a drugs order for herself and her friends.

She asked the dealer “can we have 5 bags of coke and 3 bags of ket please”.

She also placed orders as her social circle were heading to a music festival.

Jacob himself had lived a ‘lavish’ lifestyle from his own drug dealing and had enjoyed holidays to Amsterdam, Dubai, and America as well as stays at luxury hotels. His girlfriend had boasted of going to Miami and Ibiza and enjoying a “glass of wine on the beach”.

Nijjar admitted drug dealing under questioning but insisted she made no profit, saying, “my friends and I would go out drinking and clubbing very frequently and this included recreational drug use”.

“I accept that there were times when I took responsibility for purchasing drugs for these occasions and this is shown in the text messages from my mobile phone. But it did not go further than this.”

Nijjar pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine MDMA and ketamine but insisted she was now leading a “completely different lifestyle”.

She was given a two year jail sentence suspended for 23 months.

Sentencing Judge Mark Savill told Nijjar: “You are a woman not only lacking in previous convictions but you are of absolutely positive character apart from this.

“I have also read the pre-sentence report which shows you to be an intelligent, hardworking, insightful, and remorseful individual.”

The Manchester Evening News reported how a receptionist who had worked for the Great Manchester Police Digital Investigation Unit was tipping off Jacob and his accomplices, warning them they were being investigated by detectives and not to use Snapchat.

When Border Force officers intercepted a parcel from the Netherlands addressed to a property Jacob rented out in Denton, the package appeared to contain cat food but was found to contain a haul of MDMA tablets.

Police then raided the rental property and found 28 cannabis plants growing inside

They then arrived at Jacob’s home in nearby Droylsden in December 2021 where they arrested him.

They discovered found Nijjar hiding in an upstairs bedroom who initially refused to engage with the police or provide her details.

However, she later admitted that she was Jacob’s girlfriend and had stayed the night at his house, before eventually handing over her phone and the password for it.

Examination revealed that she was a recreational user of controlled drugs and was involved in the social supply of these substances with several of Jacob’s know drug contacts stored in her phone.

Nijjar was arrested at her flat in July 2022 after locking herself in the bathroom when police burst in.

Another mobile phone was seized which contained more messages saying she could still sort drug orders but warning friends “not to mention them” in any group chats.