A drug dealer who drove around Langley in a Jaguar to traffick drugs, including fentanyl, has had his sentence increased to five years imprisonment after the B.C. Appeal Court overturned his original sentence of two years, most of it under house arrest, by a lower court.

A conditional sentence of two years, plus three years of probation, is “demonstrably unfit” and not enough to denounce the crime or deter others from similar crimes, according to a judgment written by Justice Joyce DeWitt-Van Oosten of the Appeal Court.

“A substantial sentence is warranted,” she wrote in a decision supported by Justices Christopher Grauer and Lisa Warren.

Last November, Kyle Robert Bird was found guilty in B.C. provincial court of two counts of possessing drugs for the purpose of trafficking, one of whi

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