A 22-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for three years and four months after being twice caught red-handed selling crack cocaine and heroin in central Bradford.

Mohammed Idrees was arrested and bailed after he was spotted drug dealing in Longlands Street in the city centre at 11am on March 13, Bradford Crown Court heard.

But by May 4 he was “peddling death again” from a black Vauxhall Astra he was driving on Lumb Lane.

Idrees, of Grantham Terrace, Bradford, was remanded in custody to Leeds Prison and this week pleaded guilty to possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply on the two dates.

Prosecutor Mehran Nassiri said plain clothes officers saw Idrees selling drugs from a Peugeot in the city centre and stopped his vehicle on Legrams Lane. He had nine wraps of crack cocaine of 90% purity on him and a further three wraps of drugs were found in the car.

Idrees admitted he was drug dealing, saying he had sold £72 worth of crack cocaine and heroin that morning.

He was bailed while further investigations were carried out, Mr Nassiri told the court.

At 5.30pm on May 4, Idrees was caught selling drugs from the Astra after a man was seen loitering on Lumb Lane waiting for him to arrive. Idrees drove off but headed down a dead end and gave himself up to the police.

He had four wraps of heroin and a wrap of crack cocaine with him. He told the police he was selling the drugs for £7.50 a wrap with a special offer of five for £35.

Idrees said he was trafficking the drugs to pay off a debt. Phones and cash were seized from him on both occasions.

The court heard he had a conviction for affray, receiving a custodial sentence when he was 19. His solicitor advocate, Simon Hustler, said that offence arose from a schoolboy dispute that ran on into college.

Idrees did itinerant work on his release before being sucked into the drugs trade.

His good family were appalled by the turn his life had taken.

Mr Hustler said Idrees was “something of an innocent abroad.”

He was told to carry on drug dealing even after he had been arrested and bailed.

His family had rallied to his support, Mr Hustler said.

Judge Jonathan Rose said Idrees should have learned his lesson when he was locked up for affray. Instead he had carried on drug dealing after he was caught red-handed. “You were given bail and within a very short period of time you were back on the streets peddling death again,” he said. He gave Idrees full credit for his prompt guilty pleas.