Warrant issued for drug dealer (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Warrant issued for drug dealer

10:41am Wednesday 21st February 2007 in Swindon By Gazette Reporter

A judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of a Walcot drug supplier after he failed to turn up for sentencing.

Nathan Formoy was supposed to appear at Swindon Crown Court after admitting possessing heroin with intent to supply.

The 32-year-old was caught with 31 individual wraps of the class A drug when he was arrested on Wednesday, November 1 last year.

But after Formoy, of Frobisher Drive, did not attend for the sentencing hearing a warrant was issued for his arrest and detention.

And the court was told that had he turned up he would have been remanded in custody as a pre-sentence report had not been made on him.

Andrew Hobson, defending, said he only had a mobile phone number for his client and it was not being answered so he could not explain his absence.

Recorder David Lane QC said that he read Formoy had also failed to attend for a pre-sentence report to be prepared by the probation service.

He said after attending 10 minutes late for his appointment he left the offices of the probation service so no report was compiled.

"Had he turned up today I would have been remanding him in custody for the preparation of this report.

"We can't go on with this nonsense," he told the court.