This is the face of the IT-star turned drug-dealer who was locked up for years last week. 

The News reported the sentencing of Daniel Chapman after he was convicted of supplying cannabis, xanax, cocaine, oxycotine, MDMA and tramadol. 

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The 30-year-old was also guilty of the importation of MDMA from abroad. 

And now for the first time, the News can reveal the face of the dealer who created his own drugs brand. 

Bracknell News: Daniel Chapman. Image via TVPDaniel Chapman. Image via TVP

Chapman, of Wayland Close, set up the ‘Dead Lean Team’ brand and would text customers with messages such as ‘Frosty the Snowman is back’ to indicate he was selling cocaine. 

Other messages included: 

  • ‘We got the best xanax in these roads’
  • ‘New raw cocaine in. Peru import.’
  • ‘Dead Lean Team edibles will be back in stock soon’. 

Chapman turned to drug-dealing following a decline in his mental health after he was stabbed on a night out two years ago. 

He was “highlighted for promotion” and had “potential” but his life was turned “upside down”, his defence counsel said at a court hearing last week. 

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“He went out with some friends and woke up some hous later in intensive care with significant injuries caused by a machete attack on him brought about by three men.

“That evening catastrophically affected his life. 

“That led to a collapse in his mental health. He tried to live with this life of pain by turning to drugs. 

“He then began selling them to feed his habit. 

“The irony is that these men [who attacked Chapman with the machete] are all serving sentences of five years. 

“That is a sentence he will serve at the very least.”

Chapman learned his fate at Reading Crown Court on Thursday, February 3 where a judge sentenced him to four-and-a-half years in jail for the supply of cannabis, xanax, cocaine, oxycotine, MDMA, tramadol and the importation of MDMA.