A street dealer who was caught with over £4,700 worth of drugs and drugs cash in North Wales has been sent to prison for four years and nine months.

Jake Nickson travelled from Birkenhead to sell drugs in Bangor and Rhyl and Judge Niclas Parry told him that although he accepted he was a vulnerable person who was indebted to more serious criminals in the North West he had played a “significant role as a dealer”.

Mold Crown Court heard that North Wales Police received information that Nickson was on the beach front at Bangor selling drugs in 2016.

He was found with crack cocaine and heroin as well as several mobile phones.

The drugs had a street value of £365 and £1,372.74 cash was also seized from his person.

Prosecuting barrister Jemma Gordon told Mold Crown Court that a drugs warrant was executed at a flat in Rhyl in September last year when Nickson was found in the bedroom where a search uncovered a bag of herbal cannabis and two phones with names and numbers.

“He[Nickson] was taken to hospital for examination and a foreign object was found in his rectum, a ball of heroin in a clay film. He also passed two further packages containing crack cocaine and heroin,” said the prosecutor.

The total value of the drugs in the second seizure was £3,000.

Defence barrister Lionel Greig said Nickson had built up a considerable debt as he had been a cannabis user since he was 12 years of age.

“He is a young man offset by debt and he has crossed the border lines and has been coming to North Wales,” said Mr Greig.

Nickson, 22, of Westbourne Road, Prenton, Birkenhead admitted possession of crack cocaine with intent to supply, possession of diamorphine with intent to supply and possession of cannabis with intent to supply, with all the offences committed at Bangor on October 19, 2016.

Nickson also appeared for sentencing on three counts of possession with intent to supply crack cocaine, cannabis and heroin at Rhyl on September 22 last year, offences for which he pleaded guilty to at Llandudno Magistrates’ Court on June 20.

Judge Parry noted Nickson had been dealing drugs after being released from a prison sentence.

“You were coming from the North West of England to sell drugs. You were dealing heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Bangor and you were putting people’s lives at risk and you were doing that because of profit,” he said.

As well as the prison sentence the judge ordered the forfeiture of Nickson’s drugs and drug paraphernalia.