An Albanian drug dealer who entered Britain illegally has been spared jail because his partner suffers from depression and prisons are too full.
Urim Morina, 27, avoided jail despite pleading guilty to supplying cocaine through a county lines gang and possessing a document in a false name.
The Albanian initially entered Britain illegally using a travel document in a different name after being sent by his father ‘in hope of finding a better life for himself‘.
The judge used new Labour guidelines designed to prevent lower-level criminals from going to prison.
They were introduced to stop prisons from running out of space amid overcrowding in
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