A single mum who served as a manager for a Class A drug trafficking gang has been spared jail to avoid disruption to her children.
Shaneyse Boyaram, 31, formerly of Turkey Street in Enfield, served as a line holder for a county lines drugs operation which flooded Southend with kilos of crack cocaine and heroin.
The operation, known as the Cash Line, was in business “from at least April 2024 until September 2025,” prosecutor Amelia Norman told Basildon Crown Court on Wednesday (July 29).
As a line holder, Boyaram was responsible for advertising Class A drugs to south Essex addicts, taking their orders and then dispatching runners to complete the deals.
She got the job through her associate Keian Creary, the line’s boss, linked to the notorious Get Money Gang (GMG).
Boyaram held the position for around a month between February and March 2025.
“There were a series of text messages in which Mr Creary asked Miss Boyaram if she would like a job to hold the line,” said Ms Norman.
“There was then a negotiation between them as to the wages that Miss Boyaram would be paid and it was agreed that she would be paid £400 per week for holding the line.
“It is the Crown’s submission that Miss Boyaram’s culpability is that of being in a significant role, in that she had an operational function within the chain, expectation of significant financial advantage – that being £400 per week – and some awareness of the scale of the operation.”
Boyaram pleaded guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs in June 2025, but her sentence was deferred while other members of the gang went on trial in early 2026.
Creary, already a serially convicted drug dealer, was found guilty by the jury and jailed last week for 12 years.
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Defence barrister Mia Gibson urged Judge Siew Loke not to send Boyaram to prison as well, saying there was nobody who could look after her kids.
She was now living in a women’s refuge in an undisclosed location, in hiding from the children’s father, and her mum could not take care of them because she was “getting older”.
A prison sentence would therefore have “a significant harmful impact on her two children, aged eight and ten,” said the lawyer.
One has a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for which Boyaram – currently unemployed – receives disability benefits.
Her other child is awaiting assessment for autism and dyspraxia, the court heard.
Boyaram had no previous convictions and only one unrelated caution from 2009, said Miss Gibson, and her involvement in the Cash Line stemmed from “financial instability” and negative peer associations.
Ms Gibson said her client never intended to live in London again.
“She has learned the incredibly harsh way, coming before the court today, the consequences of her actions,” the barrister said.
But Judge Siew Loke said a probation pre-sentence report, based on an interview with Boyaram, suggested otherwise.
“It is concerning when I read the report that it says you appear to struggle to accept the consequences of your actions,” the judge said.
The pre-sentence report had also assessed Boyaram as a medium risk to children.
Agreeing that Boyaram had served a “significant role”, Judge Loke told her: “It was an important, trusted role. You were recruited directly by Mr Creary… It was an operational function, a critical role.”
But, she said, she accepted that Boyaram was remorseful and had taken steps to remove herself from negative influences.
“I don’t need to tell you that your decision to engage in these offences, given your situation, was irresponsible and short-sighted,” the judge said.
She sentenced Boyaram to two years in prison, suspended for 18 months, and ordered her to complete ten days of rehabilitation activities.
She imposed no punishment element of the sentence.
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