A judge told two asylum seekers ‘I hope you will be deported’ as she jailed them for running a county lines drug operation from a migrant hotel.

Mohammed Dawood and Alsayid Abdul-Khalik used the Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset, to deal crack cocaine and heroin.

The pair, who are Egyptian nationals, had sent bulk messages to over 100 customers advertising drug deals in the days leading up to their arrests.

Dawood, 26, had a previous conviction for possessing a class A drug. He was also involved in a mass brawl in which six people were stabbed outside Bournemouth & Poole College in January 2024.

He was jailed for 37 months and Abdul-Khalik for 44 months by a judge at Bournemouth Crown Court.

Judge Susan Evans told them they must serve half their sentence in prison before being either released or detained by the Home Office.

She said: ‘I very much hope you will be deported because your presence in this country is not condusive to the public good.

‘You were both involved in the supply of class A drugs which do huge harm to society and fuel crime.

‘I take the view you were trusted with a significant amount of street wraps and you had an understanding of the scale of the operation.’

The court heard during his time in the UK Abdul-Khalik, 24, had racked up previous convictions for theft and drug possession in Merseyside and before he was sent to stay in Bournemouth.

The pair were caught when officers recognised two known drug users emerging from an alleyway, one boasting, ‘I have scored a big deal,’ and then followed and detained the two asylum seekers.

They were found to be in possession of 85 wraps of the two class A drugs and £170 in cash.

Police then searched the room the two men shared at the Roundhouse and found £500 in cash under Dawood’s bed.

They also found SIM cards and mobile phones with messages sent to a known ‘drug line’ and contacts called ‘Busby’ and ‘Scouse’.

The Roundhouse in Bournemouth is one of three hotels in the seaside town that the Home Office has hired out for the exclusive use of asylum seekers.

The court heard that a drug ‘cell’ had set up within the vicinity of the Roundhouse and had recruited Dawood and Abdul-Khalik as dealers and runners.

Andrew Coley, prosecuting, said police officers became suspicious of the two defendants as they approached an alleyway on Old Christchurch Road where two known drug users were.

He said: ‘Dawood was seen to enter the lane with Abdul-Khalik at the entrance.

‘Not long afterwards the two known users exited the lane and a comment was heard ‘I have scored a big deal’,

‘The officers followed Abdul-Khalik and Dawood and detained them.’

After finding the drugs on them, police searched their room at the Roundhouse.

Summarising their offences, Judge Evans said: ‘The room you both shared was searched and located under a bed was £500 in cash, a mobile phone and SIM cards.

‘On the phone there was a single message of ‘on,’ a drug dealing message and officers identified the drug line you had been using, that number was used to send bulk text messages.

‘A cell for the drug line was in the vicinity of the hotel where you shared a room.’

Abdul-Khalik denied having anything to do with the drugs he was found with and claimed the cash he had was won at a casino.

He denied two counts of supplying class A drugs between March 30 and April 3 last year but was found guilty following a trial.

Dawood at first said the wraps found on him were in a jacket he was wearing that belonged to Abdul-Khalik but later admitted charges of supplying class A drugs.

Casey Chard, mitigating for Dawood, said his client’s role within the drugs network was merely to advertise the drugs by sending bulk text messages to users.

Two other asylum seekers living at the Roundhouse Hotel were jailed last year for chasing staff with knives because they didn’t like they food they were served.

Ibrahim Zouari, 35, and Houssine Nouira, 32, ‘aggressively’ approached staff demanding they serve them lunch that met their dietary requirements.

But when they were told it would not be possible as the kitchen was serving breakfast at the time, the pair ‘exploded’.

Tunisian migrant Nouira began the violence by picking up part of the breakfast display and throwing it at staff.

Libyan migrant Zouari then brandished a chair before picking up a knife and chasing staff. Zouari was jailed for 15 months and Nouira 12 months. 

Bournemouth’s three migrant hotels have been regular targets for protests. 

Locals claim that people, especially young women, feel scared to go into the town at night because of the number of lone male asylum seekers being housed there.