A DRUG dealer has been jailed after he was caught with £29,000 worth of heroin and cocaine.

Callum Ryland-Palmer, of Dunnock Way, Greater Leys, Oxford, pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply after police searched the 20-year-old’s home on June 5 this year.

Prosecuting at Oxford Crown Court yesterday, Michael Roques said officers found 291.93g of heroin and 50.59g of cocaine, two sets of scales and £2,600 in cash.

He told Judge Ian Pringle the majority of the heroin had a purity of about 65 per cent, suggesting it had recently been imported into the UK.

The barrister added that some of the heroin and all of the cocaine had already been packaged into 329 “street deals” or “wraps”.

Mr Roques said Thames Valley Police’s drugs expert had calculated the drugs would sell for about £29,000 to users on the street, or about £10,000 if they were sold in bulk.

He added the money seized had been confiscated and the drugs would be destroyed.

Clair Fraser, defending, said her client had only been holding the majority of the heroin for someone else.

She said: “He started supplying drugs just after Christmas 2014. It was for financial reasons. He wasn’t working, he lives with his mother and she was struggling financially and he wanted to assist her.”

Miss Fraser added Ryland-Palmer also said he wanted to pay for his sister’s rehab for an alcohol problem.

Judge Pringle told the defendant: “You are 20, but you know well enough that courts take an extremely serious view of those who street deal in this country.”

He sentenced him to three years and eight months in prison and told him to pay a £180 criminal courts’ charge and a £120 victim surcharge.