Man gave cocaine to police officer’s trick-or-treating children

A man handed bags of cocaine to a police officer’s children out trick-or-treating on Halloween night, thinking he had given them sweets, a court heard.

Apprentice panel beater Donald Junior Green fished in his pockets for a bag of Haribo sweets to give to the youngsters but instead pulled out a plastic pack containing eight snap bags of cocaine he had bought for £200 that day, Oldham Magistrates’ Court heard.

He dropped the drugs into the goody bags carried by the three children, aged eight, six and five, who knocked at his home to play trick or treat, escorted by their father, an off-duty policeman.