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A drug dealer who took millions of pounds worth of heroin from Birmingham to Leeds during the Covid lockdown has been jailed.

But police are still searching for two other men, one convicted of the same offence and another wanted for dealing drugs but awaiting trial.

Ali Hussain transported 20 kilos of heroin, with a street value of around £2 million, from Birmingham to Leeds in May 2020, in the midst of the first nationwide lockdown during the Covid pandemic.

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He was caught following an investigation by West Yorkshire Police’s Programme Precision Serious Organised Crime team.

Hussain, 36, of Sunrise Court, Bradford, admitted conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and was jailed for seven y

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