TWO men who sold Class A drugs from an Oxford guest house have been jailed.

One of the men had bragged on Facebook before he was caught about how, despite the danger, dealing crack and heroin was ‘worth the risk’.

Yesterday, the two ‘county lines’ dealers Leon Wyatt, 19, of Holyhead Road, Coventry, and Sean McCabe, 23, of Orwell Road, Coventry, were in the dock at Oxford Crown Court.

Wyatt had denied two counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs crack cocaine and heroin, and a further count of possessing criminal property.

Jurors took three hours and 28 minutes to find him guilty on all three counts by a unanimous verdict last week.

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McCabe, meanwhile, had admitted his role in the drug dealing operation and all three charges.

Prosecutors said that both men had travelled down from the West Midlands in order to sell crack cocaine and heroin to addicts in Oxford.

Between September 26 and 27 last year they set up shop at the Lonsdale Guest House on Banbury Road.

On the morning of September 27, police spotted McCabe near the guest house acting suspiciously and when he was searched he was found to have six wraps of drugs as well as a set of keys to the guest house.

On searching room 1 of the hotel police discovered McCabe’s accomplice Wyatt inside as well as a haul of Class A drugs.

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Tallying up the stash investigators found 62 wraps of crack cocaine as well as 26 wraps of heroin.

A 'craft knife', a set of digital scales and cash to the value of £819.95 was also seized from the room.

At the sentencing hearing for both of the men yesterday a Facebook conversation between McCabe and an unidentified woman was also read to the court.

McCabe boasted that he was a drug dealer, claiming that he made £1,200 a day and had been 'bottled and stabbed' while plying his wares.

In mitigation both defence barristers said that their clients were young at the time of the offending.

Peter Du Feu, representing McCabe, said that the messages on social media were his client 'bigging himself up' but admitted there was some truth to it.

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He added that McCabe was motivated to pay off a debt incurred through his own use of drugs.

Sentencing, Judge Nigel Daly ordered that McCabe, who played a higher role than his accomplice, be jailed for a total of three years and four months.

Wyatt was handed a jail term totalling two-and-a-half years.

Both will also have to pay a victim surcharge.