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 . 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 . 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 . Sahil Patel ( left ) was the ringleader of a drug gang which took delivery orders for crack cocaine and heroin on an advertised hotline . The 30-year-old was jailed for 16 years while Hamza Patel ( right ) was sentenced to six years and six months imprisonment . Nine of its members have been jailed at Snaresbrook Crown Court after police recovered 900g of crack cocaine and heroin with a street value of more than £60,000 . Phone records show that over a 92 day period , more than 66,000 phone calls and 7937 text messages were made to the phone number in Dagenham , Barking , Ilford , Redbridge and Newham . Customers could place orders for crack cocaine or heroin and have them delivered to their front doors , the court heard . An estimated 750 people are thought to have contacted the number with around 700 calls and 86 texts sent every day . 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 . Shenola Nightingale , 26 , and Imran Shahid , 35 , were also jailed . The pair were tried at Snaresbrook Crown Court alongside the rest of the gang which took more than 1,000 orders a day at its peak . Adeyemi Adeniyi , 51 , ( left ) was jailed for 30 months at an earlier court date while 21-year-old Aqib Mumtaz ( right ) , the gang 's youngest member , was sentenced to two years behind bars . Tashin Ali , 23 , ( left ) was jailed after earlier standing trial while 43-year-old Abdulkadir Mohamed ( right ) is yet to be sentenced . He was jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life , and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs . In 2001 , when he was 19 , he was jailed over separate drug offences . During a trial in Ilford it was heard proclaimed himself 'the best drug dealer in east London ' . Eight others were charged with drug offences in the latest Metropolitan Police investigation . Roqib Ali , 37 , was also convicted of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs . Hamza Patel , 26 , was jailed for six years and six months after admitting conspiracy to supply Class A drugs . Imran Shahid , 35 , Shenola Nightingale , 26 , Roqib Ali , 37 , Aqib Mumtaz , 21 , Tashin Ali , 23 , and Adeyemi Adeniyi , 51 , were all given varying sentences for the same offence among others which included dangerous driving . Abdulkadir Mohamed , 43 , was also convicted of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs . He is yet to be sentenced . The court heard how Sahil Patel was the head of an enterprise supplying Class A drugs across east London . During the course of the police investigation , officers from the Trident Area Gangs Command seized 620g of crack cocaine and 302g heroin with a street value in excess of £60,000 . Detective Inspector Steve Meechan of the Trident and Area Crime Command , said : 'The sentences handed out should serve as a significant deterrent to anyone involved in criminality of this kind . 'The harm caused across east London by these criminals can not be underestimated and I 'm pleased that they now face prison for a significant length of time . 'This is an outstanding result and reflects the professionalism and dedication of the Trident and Area Crime Command . ' Snaresbrook Crown Court ( pictured ) heard how the gang took tens of thousands of orders over a number of weeks in east London .
East London gang took orders for Class A drugs on advertised number . More than 66,000 calls and 7,000 texts were made over a period of 90 days . Ringleader Sahil Patel , 30 , was in charge of taking orders for delivery . Eight others were trusted to distribute drugs with street value of £60,000 . All nine were convicted of drug offences at Shenola Nightingale .