A children’s social worker helped run a large-scale drug and weapons network while working with a convicted criminal from Lewisham serving time for firearms offences.
Chloe Scott and Miles Addy were sentenced following a Met Police investigation that began after a 15-year-old boy was found with drugs at Tower Hill Underground Station in December 2022.
The youngster’s phone revealed that he was working for social worker Scott, who was instructing him to sell and transport drugs.
Further inquiries led to armed Met officers stopping Scott’s car on Seven Sisters Road, Islington, on June 3, 2023.
Inside the vehicle, officers found around half a kilo of cocaine and five large hunting knives.
The investigation also revealed that Scott, 27, of Whitehead Close N18, was in regular contact with convicted criminal Miles Addy, 28, of King Alfred Avenue SE6, who was serving a prison sentence for a firearms offence.
Together, the pair were running a large-scale drug supply network, dealing cocaine across London and the south-east.
Videos found on Scott’s phone showed the pair were also involved in selling weapons, with Addy directing Scott to deliver firearms and drugs to customers’ addresses.
The Met’s investigation linked one of these firearms to a murder inquiry and another to a warrant in November 2023, where it was found in the possession of Joy Hyde-Coleman, who was jailed for five years in August 2024.
Scott and Addy were charged in August 2024, and the authorities worked to suspend Scott from her role as a social worker.
Scott pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, two counts of selling or transferring a firearm, one count of conspiracy to possess firearms, one count of conspiracy to possess ammunition, one count of causing unnecessary suffering to a dog, and one count of possession of hunting knives.
She was also disqualified from owning animals for 12 years.
Addy pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, one count of conspiracy to possess firearms, and one count of conspiracy to possess ammunition.
Both were sentenced to 12 years in prison at Snaresbrook Crown Court on June 13.
A Met Police spokesperson said: “Removing dangerous weapons from the streets of London is a priority for the Met.
“By relentlessly targeting criminals involved in the supply of drugs and weapons, we can continue to reduce violent crime.”
Detective Inspector Damian Hill, from the Met’s Specialist Crime team, added: “As police officers, we all too often see the devastating consequences of drugs and weapons on the streets of London.
“These dangerous offenders helped fuel violent crime, and we won’t stand for it.
“The overwhelming evidence we gathered, supported by British Transport Police and HM Prison and Probation Service, left them with little choice but to admit to their offending, and they will both now face lengthy prison sentences.
“Across the Met, we remain committed to tackling violence, and our hard work is paying off.
“Homicide and knife crime are down, and as seen here, we are also dismantling serious and organised crime groups.”
Addy was recalled to prison after entering his guilty plea at an earlier hearing in November 2024.
