County Lines Drug Dealer from Perivale jailed
Elijah Henry-Gooding was selling around Richmond station
Elijah Henry-Gooding (left) and the knife he was found in possession of (right). Picture: BTP
April 14, 2025
A 27-year-old man from Perivale has been jailed for 38 months after admitting that he was operating a county lines drug enterprise.
Elijah Henry-Gooding, of Tavistock Avenue, Ealing, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of a bladed article as well as three separate counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs. He was jailed for 38 months at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court on Thursday, 10 April.
The court heard how on Tuesday, 30 July last year, he was stopped by British Transport Police (BTP) plain clothes officers in Richmond. They had earlier received intelligence that he was in possession of a potential County Lines phone and was regularly travelling to Richmond, to sell drugs at the station and surrounding areas.
‘County Lines’ is where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries. The ‘County Line’ is the mobile phone line used to take the orders of drugs.
During the search, Henry-Gooding was found to be in possession of £760 in cash and two mobile phones. One of these was a Nokia burner phone confirmed as the drugs line phone. He was subsequently arrested for being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
Once in custody, a strip search revealed a large clingfilmed package concealed in Henry-Gooding’s underwear. it contained 64 individual wraps of crack cocaine and 37 individual wraps of heroin.
A folding lock knife was also found to have been concealed on his person.
Supervising officer Sgt Julian Mason said, “Now that Henry-Gooding is behind bars Richmond and its surrounding communities can breathe a sigh of relief that a prolific drug dealer is off the streets along with the illegal substances he was peddling.
“Henry-Gooding believed he was a criminal mastermind and above the law but once again the work of our County Lines Taskforce proves that we will stop at nothing in dismantling and disrupting the menace of drug and knife crime on the railway.”
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