After a raid on his house in Bradford, Martin Tiser, the brother-in-law of Zayn Malik, has been discovered responsible of drug dealing and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
Tiser, 23, was reportedly discovered with £17,000 price of ‘crack cocaine’ in his backyard shed, guarded by a big canine plus grip-sealed baggage and scales on the property.
Upon being searched, police additionally discovered 29 wraps of crack cocaine, 13 wraps of heroin and £1,000.
Tiser married Malik’s youngest sister, Safaa, in September 2019, when she was 17 and he was 18 on the One Path star’s household house in Bradford.
The Pillowtalk singer, who didn’t attend the marriage as he was within the US on the time, bought the home for his mother and father after the band’s breakthrough.
He additionally purchased a £245,000 house on the identical highway for his sister, Tiser, and their daughter Zaneyah, born 4 months after the nuptials. This was not the property which was raided in Could.
Tiser was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court docket this week, having been detained as a part of Operation Keyside as a part of the ‘Kev line’, which provided Class A medicine.
The Each day Mail reported that the courtroom heard calls and bulk texts from February 2025, promoting medicine, with the road energetic near Tiser’s house.
‘Kev on energy…pure dynamite from 8-8. Finest offers,’ one textual content proven to the courtroom learn.
Prosecutor Alisha Kaye said a cellphone used for the ‘Kev line’ was found on him after they raided his house. CCTV additionally confirmed him shopping for cell phone top-up vouchers, regarded as for the machine.
She additionally revealed earlier convictions, together with possession of hashish and driving whereas over the drug restrict.
Decide Recorder Hawkins informed Tiser: ‘You’re solely 23 and you’ve got a conviction in relation to medicine, however it was merely possession of hashish, however it was plain you have been taking medicine, and it might be due to that you just received concerned in these offences.’
Mitigating, Safter Salam, stated: ‘He got here right here unable to talk a phrase of English. He struggled to assimilate himself and challenges that this defendant confronted weren’t simply linguistic.
‘He grew up in a disadvantaged space, being remoted socially and emotionally. He was extremely weak to exploitation.’
She continued that Tiser, who’s of Slovakian descent, was ‘preyed upon’ and ‘manipulated by different, extra subtle people’.
‘This offending occurred when he was unsupported and determined. It isn’t accepted he had a number one function or important function,’ she added.
Tiser, who is assumed to nonetheless be married to Safaa, should serve a minimal of two years earlier than a potential launch on license.
Malik has not addressed his brother-in-law’s arrest or sentencing, and at present resides in America, shifting to rural Pennsylvania with daughter Khai.
Metro has reached out to Malik’s crew for remark.
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