'Sniper line' cocaine couple lived high life

A HUSBAND and wife have been locked up for drug dealing after cops raided their marital home as part of a crackdown on turf wars between rival gangs.

- ANDREW BARDSLEY

Rashid Hussain, 35, and Szenm Asghar, 37, sat alongside each other in the dock after facing justice for their cocaine and heroin dealing racket on the Sniper’ drugs line.

The couple were also found to have huge amounts of cash and designer clothes. Their home was targeted in an early morning raid as part of a police operation targeting turf wars’ between rival drugs gangs in Rochdale, prosecutors said.

Both rival outfits launched tit for tat’ attacks on each other and premises, cars and individuals’ were targeted, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Hussain and Asghar were not accused of being involved in any of the violence but their home in Glen Morag Gardens, on a plush newly-developed site in Bamford, was raided by police in December last year as part of the GMP operation.