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A Bradford boxer involved with others in a massive drug supply network that traded heroin and cocaine worth millions has been ordered to sell his family home.
The confiscation order against Peter Naylor comes nine months after he along with Yasser Rehman, Fizal Khalil, and Ifsar Gulzar were together jailed for more than 40 years.
Naylor, Rehman, Khalil, and Gulzar were sentenced on December 23 last year following a major police investigation which unmasked an “industrial scale” drugs supply network that traded more than £1.7 million of cocaine and heroin worth in excess of £3.5 million on the streets.
How much will he have to pay back?
At Wednesday's Bradford Crown Court hearing, the agreed benefit figure attributed to 41-year-old Naylor from his criminal conduct was £588,716.15.
The available amount was £151,183.58.
The court heard that that took into account a schedule of assets that included Naylor’s 50 per cent equitable interest in a property at Moor Top Road in Low Moor, which amounted to £54,719.
Mr Recorder Abdul Iqbal ordered the money to be paid within three months and set a default period of three months’ imprisonment if it is not.
What the other men have to pay back?
In June this year similar orders were made against Yasser Rehman and Fizal Khahlil to together pay back just over £11,000.
The agreed benefit figure attributed to Yasser Rehman was £9,234,488.48.
The available amount was £790.49.
The agreed benefit figure attributed to Fizal Khalil was £334,088.81.
The available amount was £10,500.
The prosecution withdrew proceedings against Gulzar.
Drug dealing 'on an industrial scale'
During sentencing last year, the court heard that between late March and late May 2020, during the Covid lockdown, analysis revealed that the organised crime group (OCG) had traded more than 40 kilos of cocaine and over 70 kilogrammes of heroin.
His Honour Judge Ahmed Nadim said the men had participated in an enterprise that traded lethal drugs as mere commodities for profit with a callous disregard for the devastation left in its wake.
He said the men were linked to an OCG involved in the wholesale purchase and supply of cocaine and heroin “on an industrial scale” after the encrypted messaging platform EncroChat was infiltrated by police.
How they worked
Judge Nadim described Rehman, 41, of Glenroyd, Bradford, as one of the “principals” of the enterprise and noted that had invested money in the business of drugs supply.
Rehman admitted offences of conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine and was jailed for 16 years and four months as a “leading role” offender.
Yasser Rehman (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
“It was in the supposedly private messages, intended to be outside the reach of the law enforcement agencies, that the enterprise was laid bare,” the judge told the court.
“The enterprise moved hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and heroin worth millions of pounds with the efficiency of a wholesale distributor.”
Naylor jailed
Naylor was jailed for seven years and 11 months.
Naylor, of Moor Top Road in Low Moor, also admitted the conspiracy charges.
The judge said Naylor had purchased 3.5kg of cocaine as a customer of the OCG, but he had also been recruited by Rehman to re-press other Class A drugs.
Football and boxing past
His barrister Stephen Grattage told the court how Naylor had turned his life around since the offending in 2020 and had become a personal trainer before turning professional as a boxer in 2022.
He went on to have eight bouts in the heavyweight division - with his last contest coming in November of 2024.
In April 2022, Naylor spoke to the Telegraph & Argus about how he had supposedly turned his life around after previously serving time in jail.
He served two-and-a-half years of the five-year sentence he was handed in 2009 for possessing a firearm.
Naylor during his boxing days (left) and when he played for Bradford (Park Avenue) (Image: UGC)
At the time, the former Bradford (Park Avenue) and Halifax Town footballer told the T&A: “I went to prison a decade ago for firearms. I got given five years and ended up doing two and a half.
“It is not the best place to be. I would not wish it on my worst enemy. It was the life that I chose at the time. I have just fully turned my life around since."
Growing up in Wibsey, Naylor signed a scholarship to become an apprentice at Halifax.
In his boxing career, Naylor went on to spar with some of the country’s best pros, including Doncaster’s Dave Allen, and was helped by ex-European champion and world title challenger Pat Barrett as he transferred into the paid ranks.
How long were the others jailed for?
A “high volume wholesaler”, Fizal Khalil, now 47, of no fixed abode, also admitted the conspiracy charges and was jailed for nine years.
The court heard he had been involved in purchasing 8kg of heroin and 4kg of cocaine and had made payments to the OCG of more than £355,000.
Back in September 2022, Khalil was jailed for 14 years for a firearms offence, and the drugs sentence runs consecutively to that existing jail term.
Fizal Khalil (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Ifsar Gulzar, now 38, of no fixed abode, was already serving a prison sentence of more than 11 years for similar drugs offending. The judge set his new sentence for the admitted drugs conspiracies at seven years and two months.
That sentence runs consecutively to Gulzar’s existing jail term.
The judge said he had been a “trusted operative of the group” and had acted as a courier for 4kg of Class A drugs.
Ifsar Gulzar (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Judge Nadim said the collective harm caused by the conspiracy was “vast and incalculable”.
“The poisonous substances you traded ravaged communities, destroyed individual lives, and imposed an intolerable burden on the NHS,” he said.
He said that each kilogramme that was sourced, pressed, transported, and sold was destined to fuel addiction and associated criminality and contribute to overdoses, broken families, and community blight.