TWO Oldbury brothers who helped organise and run a phone line for addicts wanting crack cocaine and heroin have been jailed for a total of 14 years.

Randip and Hardip Daley were involved in the telephone line which provided a drugs service for 11 hours-a-day over a 10 month period - taking more than 20,000 calls, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.

Steven Narwain controlled the line between December 2015 and October 2016 with Class A drugs coming into the UK from the Netherlands, said John O'Higgins prosecuting.

When Narwain was out of the country, arranging for drug pick-ups, it was Randip Daley of Clay Lane, Oldbury, who ran the phone line, which involved a SIM card for the number being passed between handsets.

His brother Hardip Daley, of the same address, set up the line for Narwain and he got rid of the phone just before he was picked up by investigating police officers who found four other phones in his car.

Narwain, 25, of no fixed address, admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine, possessing an illegal stun gun and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Randip Daley, 27, pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and attempting to pervert the course of justice, Hardip Daley denied the two charges.

But the 22-year-old was convicted by a jury at the end of his trial after the panel retired to fully consider all the evidence.

Judge Amjad Nawaz jailed the brothers for seven years each, while Barinderpal Malhi, 44, of Highbury Road, Smethwick, was put behind bars for eight years after admitting the drugs conspiracy.

O'Higgins told the court that it was Malhi who arranged storage facilities for the gang and he took out the contract for a factory unit in the Smethwick area which is where police recovered the stun gun.

The judge told the defendants the charges were so serious only substantial prison sentences were appropriate.