A man found smashing his phone against his head at Fosse Park has said he believed he was set up by the drug dealer who had earlier sold him cocaine. Saimir Aydyli was behind the wheel of his car in Fosse Park Avenue when Leicestershire Police officers approached him.
He was seen bashing the phone into his head and then bending it over his steering wheel to snap it in half. A search revealed two small bags of cocaine in the car, which Aydyli said he had just bought for his personal use.
The 29-year-old defendant represented himself at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Monday (February 24). Speaking through an Albanian interpreter, he pleaded guilty to possessing a Class A drug.
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The prosecutor, Ravinder Daroch, told the magistrates: "On November 16 last year, traffic patrol officers had seen the defendant smashing a mobile phone against his head and then bending it over the steering wheel to destroy the phone.
"The defendant was detained for a drug search, and within the vehicle the officers found two bags of white powder. The defendant admitted to the drugs being for personal use."
Aydyli, of Goodman Street, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, told the magistrates his version of what happened. He said: "When I was arrested there were, like, 15 police cars that surrounded me. The person who sold me the cocaine, I think, is the one who reported me to the police as the cocaine supplier.
"As a result, now I have a criminal record. He had asked me to work for him because he has a big warehouse in Hinckley but I did not accept that proposal." Aydyli was fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £48 victim surcharge.
