Drug dealing taxi driver hits sentencing snag

A TAXI driver found guilty of supplying cannabis to residents of a remote Indigenous community will have to wait until February to learn his fate after his sentence was adjourned

Mohammad Qadir runs from Darwin Supreme Court during his trial

A TAXI driver found guilty of supplying cannabis to residents of a remote Indigenous community will have to wait until February to learn his fate.

Mohammad Qadir, 31, was found guilty last month of supplying a commercial quantity of a commercial quantity of cannabis to an Indigenous community, namely Gunbalanya, and was set to be sentenced on Friday.

However, Qadir’s lawyer, Jon Tippett QC, told the Darwin Supreme Court that his client’s father was in hospital and that his sentence would have to be adjourned until arrangements could be made for his father’s care.

Mr Tippett said Qadir was his father’s full-time carer and that all of his other family members had “abandoned” him.

The sentence was adjourned to February 23.

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During his trial, the jury heard Qadir supplied drugs to the remote community by leaving them on one side of Cahills Crossing, forcing his dealer to canoe across croc-infested waters to get them.