One of four members of a Lichfield family who admitted dealing drugs has told a councillor who has called for them to be moved out of the area that they are “going nowhere”.
Tina Gair (45), her husband Richard (47), and their son Duane (20), all from Meadowbrook Road in Lichfield, one of their daughters, Kerry Gair (24) from Leyfields in Lichfield, and Patsy-Anne Lenton (37) from Stychbrook Gardens in Lichfield, had initially pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to supply cannabis vegetation following a trial at Stafford Crown Court. But they changed their plea to guilty during the trial. All will be sentenced on November 20.
After the case, Cllr John Walker (Ind, Curborough) admitted he hoped the result of the case would help clean up the area.
He said:
“These are people who have no respect for the law or their neighbours. People came to me a year ago complaining that these people were selling drugs and I reported it to the police, so it’s good to see such swift action.
“Hopefully they’ll be taken off the streets along with the drugs they have been dealing and we can start to clean-up the area.”
But in a message sent to The Lichfield Blog, Kerry Gair has hit back at Cllr Walker’s comments. She said:
“John Walker says he wants us to be removed from the street – he’s full of s**t – he will never get what he wants because we are going nowhere and believe me, we are not moving nowhere.
“And for as for John Walker using us to win his elections he has no chance as it’s not a big story so go elsewhere and get your news headlines instead of living a boring life.
“We will be around for a long, long, long time to see him lose the elections. I will not be voting for him and neither will the rest of the family – and there is a lot of us.”
And despite admitting her guilt in court, Ms Gair also claimed the police should have been targeting “real drug dealers” instead of pursuing the case against her family.
She added:
“All this s*** you have put on the site is unbelieveable and it’s not true at all. If I was selling cannabis don’t you think I would be living a luxury life not a poor life like everyone else?
“Anyone standing in Crown Court would have heard the b******t that was coming out of their mouths. The police need to go and get the real drug sellers instead of harrasing the family all the time.”
