Woman who hid 85kg of Pakistani heroin in her bedroom jailed for more than 20 years

National Crime Agency (NCA) officers found the drugs, worth around £8.5m, in the back bedroom of Sidrah Nosheen’s home in Bradford.

The 34-year-old was played a crucial role in an organised crime group (OCG) which smuggled heroin from Pakistan to the UK and sold it on around the country.

The drug was concealed in clothes such as leather jackets and delivered to her home in Woodside Road, Wyke, where she removed it and put it in 1kg deal bags.

She was arrested at the house in June 2024 when officers discovered her back bedroom had been turned into a heroin processing plant.

A search of the property found 85kg of the drug in various bags along with a wallpaper pasting table, scales, buckets and tools.

There were also boxes of plastic-wrapped clothing waiting to be opened and the remnants and debris of boxes which had already been processed.

After her phone was seized officers found hundreds of messages with an accomplice in Pakistan relating to supplying heroin in the UK.

There was also evidence she had distributed large drugs consignments to contacts in the UK and on one occasion even collected £250,000 for the OCG from a criminal in Bradford.

She was due to stand trial at Bradford Crown Court but changed her plea and admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and conspiracy to import heroin.

She returned to court on Tuesday (Dec 23) and was sentenced.

Rick MacKenzie, NCA senior investigating officer, said: “To outward appearances, Sidrah Nosheen lived an unremarkable life in Bradford.

“But the truth is that she was at the centre of a plot to move large amounts of heroin around the country, dealing in the addiction and death that are inseparable from the Class A drugs trade.

“She didn’t give a second’s thought to the damage heroin wreaks on society, she was solely interested in making money.

“The NCA works at home and abroad to protect the public from the threat of Class A drugs.”