Leeds jeep attack thug was a violent drug dealer whose girlfriend helped him

Cassie Nay, girlfriend of Nicholas Adair

Violent thug Nicholas Adair, his girlfriend and family members were also sentenced in relation to drugs and money laundering offences following his arrest over the Harehills jeep attack.

Adair and co-defendant Tyrone Gentles were this week jailed over a horrific incident in Harehills which saw them beat victim Martin McDonagh outside a shop before mowing him down in their 4x4. McDonagh's ear was ripped off by the vehicle and he spent five weeks in intensive care.

Police raided the family home where Adair and his partner Cassie Nay, pictured above, lived at Poole Crescent, Cross Gates, and found £80,000 worth of cannabis in the loft.

The couple had bought the property after convincing their mothers to help them persuade conveyancing solicitors that the cash was not the proceeds of criminal conduct.

Adair also got his brother, Daniel, to come to the property after the raid in April 2016 and make claims that the cannabis belonged to him.

The court heard Adair's mother wrote a letter to a solicitor to say £20,000 of a £90,000 deposit used to pay for the property had been a gift from her.

Nay's mother, Christine Raisbeck, also sent letters to lawyers asserting that the cash used to buy the house did not come from criminal activity.

At the time of the raid the house was in the process of being renovated and fitted with fencing and a CCTV system.

Recorder Kidd said the work was being done turn to the house into a "drugs compound."

She said: "Everything was being put in place as part of a sophisticated family-run business to live off the earnings of drugs supply."

Police surveillance in the days before the raid showed Nay carrying bags from her BMW which were later recovered from the loft.