Moment Nigel Kennedy’s cocaine-dealing son is caught operating medicine for multi-million-pound county strains gang – as sellers are jailed for whole of 96 years

Dramatic bodycam footage shows the moment the son of world-renowned violinist Nigel Kennedy was caught drug dealing for a major county lines gang.

Sark Yves Amadeus Kennedy, 29, was a key member of a multi-million pound crime gang running the ‘H’ and ‘KAM’ drug lines.

The group flooded the streets of South Worcestershire with 25kg of cocaine, worth more than £1.5 million, which was delivered to dealers from Birmingham.

Kennedy was one of 15 gang members jailed for a total of 96 years following a four-year undercover investigation by West Mercia Police officers.

In June 2021, he was arrested when police stopped the ‘stash car’ he was using to ferry the drugs around and officers found almost 400 wraps of cocaine worth £15,000 stuffed inside pairs of disposable gloves.

Kennedy, who was wearing an expensive Rolex watch and gold chain, told officers his drug dealing was a ‘one off’.

He was jailed for 33 months after admitting possession with intent to supply cocaine.

And then in 2022, just weeks after being released, he was arrested again when police caught him dumping wraps of cocaine outside a school in Malvern. 

His father Nigel told MailOnline in August last year that he believed his son’s first prison sentence had done his son ‘some good’.

He said: ‘It’s made a man out of him, he’s not an overgrown boy. It’s like being in the Army, I suppose. It toughens you up.’ 

‘He was moved around a lot in the prison system and I didn’t see him until his [first] term was finished. It felt like a weird position. I was completely powerless and worried for his life. I prayed he would come out of it in one piece, and luckily that’s how it transpired.’ 

But in October, Kennedy, who a judge said was ‘up to his neck in the filthy [drug] trade’, was jailed again for five years and nine months.

The court heard how Kennedy was a member of the gang targeted by West Mercia Police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).

Officers had attempted to arrest the gang’s leaders, Ameeth Mudhar and Syed Alom, several times before they were brought to justice after they were caught on undercover footage supplying drugs to a network of street dealers. 

On one occasion, officers tried to stop Alom and his ‘lieutenant’ Shakir Ali but they rammed a police car before speeding away. 

Footage shows the pair hurling drugs out of the car windows before narrowly missing running over a child as he crossed the road with his family.

The car was eventually dumped in a pub car park and the pair fled on foot.

Surveillance videos also showed the gang stashing cocaine, including a bag of drugs worth £8,000, in a bush in Worcestershire. 

In December 2020, Alom was arrested at his home in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, and he was remanded in custody.

Meanwhile Mudhar fled to Dubai and sent mocking phone messages claiming he was ‘ten steps ahead’ of the authorities and Alom.

In one message, he said: ‘Business will never go down. How many times do you think we’ve been nicked?

‘We’ve got brothers, we’ve got cousins, we’ve got boys. The lines will always come back on, let me tell you that.’

In April 2021, he returned to the UK where he was arrested by police at his home in Malvern.

During the four-year operation, police seized around 750g of cocaine and 2kg of cannabis worth over £80,000.

Mudhar was jailed for 14-and-a-half years and Alom who was sentenced to ten years in prison last February.

Police say that due to his time spent in custody, Alom was released last month and made subject of a ‘serious crime prevention order.’