We’ve blogged about some serious dumbasses on Sick Chirpse over the years, but this drug dealer from Newport, south Wales might just take the cake.
Mark Wainfur, 33, has been jailed for 12 years and ordered to pay back £48,000 after baiting himself up on social media; sharing photos where he’s handling wads of cash and posing in cannabis farms.
As per Metro, Wainfur was first jailed for three years in July 2018 after the pictures helped pin him to a drug network. But when he got out of jail he used an encrypted EncroChat phone to sell cocaine worth around £1.5 milllion and £500,000 in heroin.
He thought using the phone would keep his identity hidden, but police cracked the code and he was arrested again last year, admitting two charges of supplying class A drugs in court.
Detective Inspector Ian Bartholomew told Cardiff Crown Court:
‘Mark Wainfur is an established and prolific drug supplier who thought he was untouchable.
He profited from an illegal trade that often leads to other forms of criminal activity and can cause harm and misery within our communities.
By using an encrypted mobile communications network to conduct his criminal enterprises, he trafficked more than 20 kilograms of cocaine and heroin into Gwent and laundering significant quantities of cash to buy jewellery worth in excess of £200,000.’
Here’s a look at some of that jewellery, which of course, Wainfur plastered all over his socials:
As dumb as this guy is though, he did actually make a mint through his drug dealing enterprise – £1,124,035 to be precise.
I’m not sure then why he’s been ordered to only repay £48,000, which probably just about covers his energy bill. Either way, he’s looking at an extra year in prison if he fails to make that payment.
In any case, it’s another helpful reminder to not advertise the fact you’re a drug dealer on social media, as tempting as that might be.
It’s also not a great idea to advertise your drugs business on your T-shirt, as this Yorkshire shotter found out. I mean really, how stupid can you get?
