A MAN was caught delivering hundreds of thousands of pounds of cocaine stashed inside a shopping bag in a drugs trafficking bid, a court heard.

After police officers observed the exchange, a jury was told, they arrested a group of men and seized some 10 kilos of the class A drug.

Prosecutors said that the wholesale value of that 'significant' haul of cocaine would be valued at about £350,000.

Jamaal Rehman denies one count of supplying a controlled drug of class A - cocaine.

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The 30-year-old of Wellesley Road, Slough, began his trial at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.

Outlining the case to the jury Timothy Hunter, prosecuting, said the drugs bust took place in Oxford on the afternoon of April 26 this year.

He said that police officers first observed a blue Astra van park up outside a home in the North Hinksey area of the city.

Shortly after, the jury was told, Rehman arrived driving a white BMW car before he too pulled up outside.

A man then came out of a flat, prosecutors said, before entering Rehman's car.

That man went on to remove a large supermarket-type bag - described as a 'bag for life' - from the car before leaving.

Mr Hunter said that police then went on to arrest a number of men in connection with the incident, including Rehman.

During the arrest a bag was seized and found to contain some 10kg of cocaine, divided into 10 individual single kg bags.

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The court heard that the large quantity of the class A drug would fetch about £350,000 if sold wholesale.

Inside the BMW police also found £1,000 in cash in an envelope which Rehman claimed was his own 'personal money.'

A single £5 note was also seized which prosecutors said matched the serial number of a photographed bank note one of the other men had stored on a phone.

The court heard that the system was a practice used to identify two individuals who were meeting as being the correct people.

The jury was also told that on his arrest Rehman was asked about the alleged drugs trafficking.

During that interview at Abingdon Police Staton he answered no comment or remained silent to all of the questions put to him.

Two other men - including the man who is alleged to have taken the bag out of the BMW - have already admitted their role in relation to the incident.

Mr Hunter told the jury: "There is no factual dispute in relation to what took place.

"You might think the case is [...] his knowledge.

"Did he know whether the consignment or package, or both he was delivering contained class A drugs or not?"

Rehman denies the single count he faces and the trial continues.