A convicted drug dealer has been freed on bail pending an appeal because police involved in an investigation were found to have acted corruptly following a staged search for evidence against an undercover officer.
On August 10, Trevor John Momo Wilson pleaded guilty to supplying LSD, conspiring to sell party pills, selling cannabis, conspiring to sell cannabis and possession of LSD.
The charges arose out of a covert police investigation into the activities of Nelson motorcycle gang the Red Devils and involved the use of an undercover police officer.
Wilson was sentenced in September to two and a half years' jail on the charge of supplying LSD and concurrent terms of imprisonment of a year on the other charges.
There were 20 other co-accused but Wilson was the only one to plead guilty.