POLICE who searched a Keighley man spotted dealing drugs on the street found wraps of heroin and crack cocaine inside a Kinder egg toy container.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Waqas Ahmed was part of an established drugs line when he was arrested at around 11am on December 5, 2022.

Prosecutor Anthony Moore told the court that police operating in Keighley spotted a woman who appeared to be waiting for a particular vehicle in Spencer Street, and about five minutes later Ahmed pulled up alongside her in a VW Golf. What appeared to be a drug transaction took place.

Ahmed then got out of the car and went into an address in Spencer Street.

A few minutes later he was seen to leave the house and go to two vehicles that had pulled up nearby. More drug deals took place.

When he left the house again he was detained by police officers.

Ahmed was found to be wearing a bag containing a mobile phone, £290 in cash and a Kinder egg in which eight wraps of heroin and four wraps of crack cocaine worth a total of £120 were hidden.

A second mobile phone was found in his pocket that contained messages and texts indicating drug dealing and an established drugs line with regular customers.

Police said the fact that the phone was receiving messages directly from customers suggested that the holder of the phone was more actively involved than simply being a low-level drug runner.

Ahmed was arrested and during an interview later that day he replied “no comment” to all questions.

He later pleaded guilty to possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.

Mitigating, Glenn Parsons said 29-year-old Ahmed, who lived in Spencer Street, was set up to monitor a phone and to make deliveries of drugs but was handing a large amount of the money he was making to other people.

He added: “He took this ill-fated step of selling drugs to try and make ends meet, which has ended in this disaster for him.”

In sentencing Ahmed, Recorder Mrs Taryn Turner said his offending was aggravated by a conviction for drug dealing in 2017, for which he had been jailed.

She jailed Ahmed for three years on each count, to run concurrently.

Also, she ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs and phones that were seized, and the forfeiture of the £290 cash.