A 27-year-old drugs baron who boasted he was making a massive £25,000 a week from his illicit trade at a house in Kent is facing a lengthy jail sentence.

A jury at Maidstone Crown Court convicted Kerone Oakley of conspiracy to supply drugs after a two-week trial.

He will be sentenced with Mark Barnes, Dwayne Cameron and Seyi Allen, who previously admitted their involvement at an earlier hearing.

The court heard how Oakley would employ others to supply Class A drugs and turn up occasionally in either his yellow Fiat Stilo car or a BMW convertible to collect the takings.

Heroin and crack cocaine were wrapped in pink tissue paper and stashed over the road from the den in Cromwell Terrace, Chatham.

Philip St John-Stevens, prosecuting, said police filmed 97 different known addicts visiting the address to collect £20 “deals” during a month-long surveillance operation.

Oakley did not spend much time at the house but controlled the operation by taking the stock there and collecting the proceeds. “He, no doubt, employed others to do his dirty work,” said Mr St John-Stevens.

Others were either living in the house or playing a part in the agreement to sell drugs. Two of them, fellow Jamaicans Barnes, 26, and Cameron, 21, admitted conspiracy to supply drugs and gave evidence for the prosecution. Mr St John-Stevens said Barnes was Oakley’s right-hand man and his role was to look after and run the house.

Cameron, of Windsor Road, Leyton, East London, was a regular visitor to the terraced house and sold drugs there at street level.

Drugs were stashed across the road from the house in case there was a police raid. When officers swooped on May 24 last year, over 190 £20 deals of crack cocaine and heroin were retrieved from ivy where there was off-street parking.

Mr St John Stevens said pink paper was probably used so that it was easy to locate the drugs. None were in the house at the time of the raid.

Barnes described Oakley as a “weights man” - someone who supplied kilos of drugs, rather than wraps on the street. He had witnessed Oakley buying drugs in London for large amounts of cash.

On one occasion, he handed over £35,000. The drugs would be taken to the house, sometimes by female “mules” who hid them in their private parts.

When the house was raided Cameron fled and was arrested at a house three doors away. The owner had no idea he was there.

When Oakley’s home in Priory Avenue, Walthamstow, East London, was searched a notebook containing figures was found. In the glove compartment of his Fiat car was £2,500 in cash.

Oakley had two accounts at the Royal Bank of Scotland and three at Barclays. In three months up to May last year he paid in £27,840.

“You may well think that this represents only a tiny proportion of the money taken from the address,” said the prosecutor. “It would be unnecessary to pay all the money into the bank accounts.”

Oakley claimed to be a hairdresser but no source of income could be found. He said he had received £10,000 from an insurance policy. The BMW, he said, was borrowed from his father-in-law.

Remanding Oakley in custody and adjourning sentence to Canterbury Crown Court, Judge Adele Williams said: “It is obvious to everyone that a lengthy sentence of imprisonment will follow for this offence.”