Leigh dealer jailed after video showed him disguising drug sales as takeaway orders

Dawid Bialek, 30, has been sentenced for supplying heroin and crack cocaine after police found evidence of his dealing, including a video in which he pretended to take takeaway orders while preparing drug packages. The case highlights the use of mobile phone evidence in investigating drug supply and the police’s efforts to disrupt it in Leigh.

Police first spotted Bialek trying to throw a suspicious package into water near Quayside, Leigh, on 11 May 2026; it contained suspected Class A drugs. Searches later uncovered more suspected drugs, scales, empty wraps and phones, and plain-clothes officers subsequently caught him carrying drugs and cash. He pleaded guilty and received four years and nine months at Liverpool Crown Court on 30 October.