A LANDLORD who became suspicious that his tenant had moved out found £220,000 of heroin, cocaine and cannabis hidden in the property.

Raymond Duckett told Oxford Crown Court yesterday that when he visited his flat in Reliance Way, Cowley, he discovered black plastic bags and rucksacks containing drugs.

They were stashed in two “cubby holes” containing the water tank and washing machine.

Barton residents Mark Johnson, of Weymann Terrace, and Michael Krah, of Stowford Road, both deny conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine and cannabis between July 1 and July 26, 2010.

Other people believed to have been involved are still at large.

Justine Davidge, prosecuting, told the court that a student had been staying in the flat with his wife and two children while he was studying English in Oxford.

But, she added, he had moved out on July 14, 2010, and handed the keys of the property back to his letting agent in Cowley Road.

Miss Davidge said: “It is suggested that an employee of Beehive Lettings in Cowley Road, may have handed the keys to the conspirators.”

Miss Davidge said that in total Mr Duckett gave the police 2kg of heroin, 124.5g of crack cocaine, 6kg of cannabis resin and around 2.5kg of cocaine.

The barrister added that the drugs had been valued by an expert at around £220,000, but their street value was likely to be much higher.

Mr Duckett told the court: “I expected it to be rubbish, but then I started pulling them out and I thought ‘gosh, it’s not rubbish at all’.

“I just didn’t know what it was, I thought ‘is it explosives?’ I didn’t know. I thought it could possibly be drugs.”

The jury heard that the defendants were linked to the property by their fingerprints, which were found on the plastic bags, and a DNA sample which matched Krah.

Miss Davidge said when the defendants’ houses were raided police discovered evidence that they had spent large amounts of money.

She said at Krah’s house, and his girlfriend’s property in Astrop Lane, Oxford, officers found bottles of champagne, £10,000 in cash, designer clothes, cigars and photos of him on foreign holidays.

In the house Johnson shared with his partner and three children police also found designer clothes, £500 in cash and cards for various bank accounts.

Miss Davidge said: “What the prosecution says is that given the items that were found at their properties, and the money and accounts they had, these defendants appear to be living outside of their legitimate means.

“We say that they were part of a conspiracy to supply drugs.

“That is why their fingerprints are on the plastic bags and why there are so many circumstantial links between them.

“It is also the prosecution’s case that they made a material profit that subsidised their lifestyles.” The trial continues.