Tyrone Potter, who was known by the street name Nemo. A major dealer who controlled Basingstoke s drug scene has been jailed. Tyrone Potter, who went by the street name Nemo, was one of the leading figures in a cartel of county lines drug networks that operated in the town. His line operated for almost three years, with links to Kingston and Reading, and was responsible for selling 10 kilograms of Class A drugs - equivalent to a street value of £1 million. Potter, 25 from Earley, Reading, started a cartel with his Nemo line alongside Ahmed Abdullah and Antonio Abayomi, who ran the Monster and Bestie lines in the town.
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The attempted murder case will return to court next month. THE case against a teenage girl accused of attempting to murder her grandmother has been put off until next month. The 14 year old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has yet to plead to a count of attempted murder and was not required for this morning s hearing at the Isle of Wight Crown Court. The alleged attack took place at a flat in Shanklin on February 19. Electric bass and lead guitars were allegedly used as weapons against her grandmother. The teenager was remanded in custody, but has been excused attending a further plea and trial management hearing at Portsmouth Crown Court on June 28.
Drug dealer Nemo sentenced to more than a decade in prison for running cartel A drug dealer responsible for the sale of £1 million of Class A drugs in Basingstoke has been jailed for more than a decade. Tyrone Kelvin Potter, who was known by the street name Nemo, was one of the leading members of a cartel that ran in the town since 2018. It operated for almost three years, including during the Covid pandemic, and used vulnerable drug addicts that lived in Basingstoke to act as a barrier to police investigations. Hampshire Constabulary started a thorough investigation into the Basingstoke drugs scene after Taylor Williams was murdered in the town in August 2019 - and have seen several people appear before the courts in the last six months.
Woman admits stealing plant, shoes and copper piping A BISHOP’S Waltham woman has admitted a string of thefts across Hampshire including the Winchester district. Eileen Hughes, of Blanchard Road, appeared at Portsmouth Magistrates Court today where she admitted to four thefts. On December 8, 2020, the 49-year-old stole a plant from outside an address in Knowle Avenue, Knowle, just five days later she took a pair of shoes from a driveway in Gosport Road, Lee-on-the-Solent. She then stole vehicle batteries on January 12 from Portchester Road in Fareham and on January 24 stole copper piping from a garden on Cottes Way, Fareham. Hughes previously appeared at the same court on March 25 where she also pleaded guilty to two thefts that took place on October 28, 2020. She had stolen metal and tools from Wallisdean Avenue in Fareham, and stole metal from a yard in Winchester Road, Shedfield.
A drug dealer known as Nemo has pleaded guilty. A man has pleaded guilty to drug dealing in Basingstoke. Tyrone Potter, who went by the street name Nemo , admitted two counts of supplying Class A drugs at Portsmouth Crown Court earlier today (Tuesday). The 25-year-old was the kingpin of a county lines operation that supplied heroin and cocaine in the town for three years. The network counted Olamide Soyege and Terence Maccabee, the men responsible for the killing of Taylor Williams in Basingstoke in August 2019, among its members. When giving evidence during the Williams murder trial last year, Soyege, who was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of murder, labelled Nemo as unsavoury .