article_snippet: A dial-a-drug gang which took more than 1,000 orders a day from desperate customers on an advertised crime hotline has been jailed for 33 years collectively.
article_snippet: At the height of its success the gang, headed by 30-year-old Sahil Patel, was delivering Class A drugs to hundreds of people across East London every day.
article_snippet: It took orders for crack cocaine and heroin on a 24 hour phone number advertised across the area which customers could either phone or text to pay to have drugs delivered.
article_snippet: Sahil Patel (left) was the ringleader of a drug gang which took delivery orders for crack cocaine and heroin on an advertised hotline.
article_snippet: Customers could place orders for crack cocaine or heroin and have Customers delivered to Customers front doors, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
article_snippet: Patel, the organisation's ringleader, was in charge of setting up the phone line and taking orders while eight others were trusted to distribute drugs.
article_snippet: proclaimed 43-year-old Abdulkadir Mohamed (right) 'the best drug dealer in east London'.
article_snippet: Snaresbrook Crown Court heard how Sahil Patel was the head of an enterprise supplying Class A drugs across east London.
highlights_snippet: East London gang took orders for Class A drugs on advertised number .
  
highlights_snippet: Ringleader Sahil Patel, 30, was in charge of taking orders for delivery .
  
highlights_snippet: Eight others were trusted to distribute drugs with street value of £60,000 .
  