A WHITEFIELD drugs runner who supplied 5kg of heroin to a gang has had his jail term cut by top judges.

Mohammed Khan, aged 41, of Glendevon Place, handed over the package to two members of the gang just hours before the flat where they were storing their stash was raided.

Police officers found an enormous haul of hard drugs with a total street value of around £5.5 million.

Khan was jailed for eight years and eight months at Bradford Crown Court in September after admitting conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

But his sentence was today slashed to six years by judges sitting at London's Criminal Appeal Court, who said the original term was 'too long' for his limited role in the plot.

Police raided the house in Bradford in February 2013 and discovered 29.8kg of heroin, and smaller amounts of cocaine and crack cocaine.

Earlier that day, two members of the gang had travelled to Manchester and collected a package, which police believed contained about 5kg of heroin, from Khan.

This was the first time he had come to the attention of the police during the course of their investigation into the plot, which ran between January and June 2013.

There was no evidence he had been involved in any other supplies of drugs.

His lawyers challenged his sentence today, arguing that the crown court judge did not take enough account of this factor.

Allowing the appeal, Judge Francis Gilbert QC, sitting with Lord Justice Gross and Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing, said the sentence was 'excessive'.

He concluded: "Khan should have been sentenced on the basis that his proved involvement in the conspiracy was limited to one delivery, believed to be 5kg."