Six people who were allegedly recruited to sell Class A drugs on the streets of Gravesend in a “county lines” case have gone on trial.

Seun Daramola controlled the “Star Line” from London, operating a number of telephone numbers.

Christopher Bolokor, 22, Tashan Reid-Watson, 21, Rene Joseph, 32, and Kirk Huggins, 31, worked for Daramola, travelling from the City to Gravesend to supply cocaine and heroin, it is alleged.

Sally Taylor, 43, and Lee Tait, 39, lived in Gravesend and worked with Daramola and dealers travelling to Kent, a jury at Maidstone Crown Court was told.

Prosecutor Ben Irwin said a number of others were also involved in the Star Line and had been prosecuted.

The operation ran throughout last year and ended when arrests were made in December.

Mr Irwin said PC Jennifer Brock was with two colleagues in Colyer Road, Gravesend, on May 19 last year when she saw four men, two of whom were Bolokor and Reid-Watson.

One of the others, who was gaunt and unkempt, walked into an alleyway behind Waterdales, with the other man, who had a dog with him.

The reason for the meeting was to supply drugs, said Mr Irwin. Another officer kept watch and saw Bolokor and Reid-Watson leaning into a car, which then drove off.

Officers later raided a house in Waterdales. Bolokor fled and threw a carrier bag into a garden.

He jumped from a height and injured his ankle. He had a small bag of cannabis in his pocket.

Reid-Watson also made off, but was caught in a garden. Officers went into a one bedroomed bungalow there and found it was “disgusting” with a rancid smell.

Various items were found, including phones, which showed links to the Star Line. The bag Bolokor discarded contained 13 wraps of heroin.

Mr Irwin said on May 23, police stopped a Lexus car on London Road. The driver, Rene Joseph, gave a false name. He refused to get out of the car and drove off.

The car was followed and it eventually stopped. Joseph claimed he only had cannabis, but two parcels containing 44 wraps of cocaine and 22 wraps of heroin were found nearby.

Joseph’s DNA was found on the bags. His phone was linked to the Star Line and contact with Daramola.

On June 30 last year, officers forced their way into Street’s home in Wallis Park, Northfleet, and found Huggins sitting on a sofa with his left trainer on his right foot.

He took it off and there was cash stuffed in the end of it and a bag containing 15 wraps of crack cocaine and 19 wraps of heroin.

Street and Huggins were arrested.

On the afternoon of September 6 last year Daramola was stopped in a car in Gravesend.

“It is the Crown’s case he had come to replenish the stocks of Class A drugs held by dealers,” said Mr Irwin.

Daramola discarded a package, which was recovered from a garden in Cutmore Street, along with a folded knife. Inside the golf ball size package were 49 waps of crack cocaine and 29 wraps of heroin.

Officers also seized £1,125 in cash from Daramola.

Shortly afterwards, police went to the home of Sally Taylor and Lee Tait in Overcliffe. Another man was also there. He admitted having cocaine in his pocket.

All three were arrested. The other man has since disappeared. Cash was seized.

Mr Irwin said the address was being used as a base to supply drugs. Daramola and Bolokor were arrested on December 20 at their London homes. Bolokor said: “What is this Star gang? I don’t know anything about that.”

“The link between all these defendants is Seun Daramola,” said Mr Irwin. “No doubt he was one of the leading figures in the conspiracy, but was not acting alone.”

Bolokor, of Woking Close, Putney, South West London, Huggins, of Manor Grove, Peckham, East London, Reid-Watson, of Willington Road, Stockwell, South London, Taylor, of Princes Road, Gravesend, Tait, of Overcliffe, Gravesend, and Joseph, of Guinness Trust, Stamford Hill, North London, all deny conspiracy to supply drugs.

Daramola and another man Thomas Street have admitted their roles in the conspiracy, and will be sentenced after the trial, which continues.