A man appeared before Oxford magistrates yesterday charged with supplying heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover police officer.

Jamaican national Winston Nichol, of Morton Road, Islington, London, faces five charges of selling crack cocaine and three charges of selling heroin to a plainclothes officer, in the Blackbird Leys area of Oxford, last year.

Nichol, 27, is also charged with conspiracy to supply heroin and conspiracy to supply crack cocaine in Oxford.