A PERSONAL trainer accused of sinking his teeth into a detention officer during a strip search told a jury ‘I 100 per cent never bit his hand’.

And Aimer Thomas, who also goes by the name Flex Rodriguez, said he had not been involved in the trade in drugs since his release from prison in 2012 for dealing.

The 30-year-old was giving evidence at Swindon Crown Court where he is on trial accused of assault and being involved in supplying drugs.

Thomas insisted that he had no idea there were six wraps of crack cocaine on him when he was arrested and had not meant to bite the detention officer.

Although he now works in the fitness trade he said he still uses crack and cannabis and was visiting his girlfriend Lisa Corner on Thursday, March 12.

Pals Nuno Luis and Luke Lord were also there and the four of them smoked some of the drugs and drank beer while watching football.

Shortly before police raided the Toothill house he said Miss Corner had gone out to get some more drink and must have bought some crack.

He said she had borrowed his jacket for the trip, because it was raining, and he had put it on again to go outside for a cigarette when she returned and before the raid. Although officers went through the pockets and took his mobile phone he said they must have missed the six small wraps as they were inside receipts and betting slips.

The first time he said he saw them was when he was being strip searched at the police station and they fell on the floor .

He said officers were being ‘overzealous’ and twisting his hand, which was in a cast after he broke his wrist in a gym accident.

After he pulled it away he said he was taken to the floor where a number of them, including detention officer Paul Davis who says he was bitten, sat on him.

Thomas said “I 100 per cent never bit his hand. I have seen the picture and it is not even a bite, it is not even a bite mark.”

He said that he would never get involved in dealing drugs again after getting jailed for six years at Canterbury Crown Court in 2010.

Under cross examination from Philip Warren, prosecuting, he accepted he had pleaded not guilty on that occasion to 11 charges and was convicted after a trial.

Mr Warren put to him he was telling a series of lies and the drugs came from his pants and he was trying to conceal them, which he refuted.

The defendant also said the mobile phones seized which had texts relating to drug dealing did not belong to him and he had not sent the messages.

Thomas, of Westminster Road, denies being concerned in the supply of heroin, possessing cocaine with intent to supply and common assault. The trial continues.