Drug dealer's wares put YMCA pair in hospital

DEFENDANT AVOIDS CUSTODY BECAUSE OF DELAY IN CHARGING HIM

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

A TEENAGE drug dealer left two YMCA residents needing hospital treatment after they took tablets he sold them.

Nottingham Crown Court was told Timo Hoyland also used a group Snapchat account of people living there to advertise ecstasy, as well as anxiety medication Xanax, for sale.

Just a week after being arrested on those matters, he was caught a week later with a rucksack containing more drugs.

But the judge who this week sentenced the now 20-year-old, said both he and the court were "in an impossible situation" due to it taking almost two years for the police to charge him.

Since that time, the defendant, of Edwalton, has turned his life around.