A member of a drugs gang involved in a confrontation with another dealer who was stabbed to death in Norfolk has admitted supply offences.

Viktorija Kuzule had been part of a drugs gang supplying Class A drugs in Thetford in 2019.

Kuzule appeared at King's Lynn Crown Court on Monday (November 7) when she admitted two counts of conspiracy to supplying cocaine and diamorphine in the town betweem April 1 2019 and November 21 2019.

The 20-year-old, from Pine Close, Thetford, also admitted a further charge of failing to comply with a section 49 notice to disclose the key to protected information, namely a mobile phone, on March 13 2021.

The case was adjourned until December 7 for a pre-sentence report to be prepared, although Judge Alice Robinson warned Kuzule these were "serious offences".

Kuzule was part of a drugs gang which was involved in a violent confrontation with David Lawal who was stabbed to death after also supplying drugs in the town.

Mr Lawal, 25, was found dead at a bridge on the A134 Brandon Road in Thetford, where he had suffered a single stab wound to the neck on October 3 2019. 

 

Eastern Daily Press: David Lawal, 25, was murdered in Thetford. Picture: Norfolk Constabulary

In December last year Amrik Singh, then 19, was sentenced to a total of six years in a Young Offenders Institution (YOI) after he previously admitted manslaughter following Mr Lawal's death.

He also admitted two counts of conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

 

Eastern Daily Press: Amrik Singh who was sentenced in December last year after having admitted the manslaughter of David Lawal in ThetfordAmrik Singh who was sentenced in December last year after having admitted the manslaughter of David Lawal in Thetford (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)

 

Mr Lawal and another man had both been armed with knives when they went to speak with members of a rival gang.

Also sentenced last December, were Iddi Zito, then 19, from East London, Elie Saba, then 36, of Ilford and Lisa DeSousa, then 23, of London, who had all previously admitted conspiracy to supply class A drugs offences.

Zito was sentenced to three years, three months in a young offenders institute; Saba to eight years in custody and DeSousa to three years and three months in custody.

In March this year, Claudia Annius, 22, from Bedford was sentenced to two years imprisonment, suspended for two years, after she admitted two counts of conspiring to supply class A drugs and another offence of assisting an offender.

She was ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work and a 30 day rehabilitation activity requirement.