Uber driver freed from jail after ketamine supply role

Summarised from Liverpool Echo's report · Updated 6 Nov, 19:24 · Archive

An Uber driver has been released from jail after serving months on remand for involvement in a ketamine supply operation.

Michael Clarke, 24, of Blackbrook Close in Walton, Liverpool, has been released from jail after serving several months on remand awaiting trial. He was involved in a ketamine supply operation in which he operated a phone used to offer drugs for sale and acted as a chauffeur for the person supplying the drugs.

Police attended Clarke's home on 29 April and seized cannabis, cannabis grinders and two machetes. The former trainee electrician, who became an Uber driver after his apprenticeship was halted during the Covid pandemic, accepted in a basis of plea that he had been instructed to drive another person as part of the drug enterprise and had received modest payment for doing so on certain days from March onwards. He has no previous convictions.

The judge sentenced Clarke to a term that resulted in his immediate release, given the time he had already served. His solicitor told the court that Clarke has a job and urged the judge to pass a sentence enabling his release.

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