A TEENAGER who was caught with hundreds of pounds worth of hard Drugs in a police raid has been jailed for three years and two months.

Zephaniah Campbell was in a house in Swindon when police launched a series of raids across the town last summer.

And while on bail the 19-year-old launched a frenzied attack on a man in a shopping centre, leaving him with a broken eye socket after kicking him when he was on the ground.

Drugs squad officers stormed 10 properties across Swindon on June 15, arresting Campbell in one of them.

When he was searched he was found to have 12 wraps of crack cocaine and 23 of heroin in street deals.

He also had mobile phones which had evidence of drug dealing on them and a set of scales was found in the house. Campbell admitted he was dealing in drugs but insisted he was also a user and only selling them to ‘a close groups of associates’ to fund his own habit.

Swindon Crown Court was told that he was on bail in November last year when he attacked a man in the Eastgate Shopping Centre, Gloucester.

He punched 25-year-old Ashley Boughton to the floor before kicking him repeatedly during the assault outside the Republic clothing store.

Campbell then ran from the scene, getting a bus to his girlfriend’s house and when he was arrested he showed no remorse for what he had done.

He said Mr Boughton had punched his younger brother, breaking his nose, a few weeks earlier and he deserved what he got.

The victim was taken to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where he was treated for a fractured eye socket.

Campbell, of Emerald Close, Tuffley, Gloucester, pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing drugs with intent to supply and one of grievous bodily harm.

Nigel Fryer, defending, said his client, who is now drugs free, was not a serious supplier but someone who was dealing to a set of people he knew.

He said there was still hope his client could ‘develop into a law abiding citizen’ if he had the right structures around him and urged the court to impose a suspended sentence. Mr Fryer handed the court a number of references which showed another side to his client.

But jailing Campbell, Judge Euan Ambrose said: “The picture painted in the references is of someone for whom nothing is too much trouble.

“It is difficult to reconcile that with your record. You are 19 and have a number of offences. You have a bad record for violence: a robbery in 2006, common assault in 2007 and a burglary inflicting GBH in a dwelling and a wounding in 2007.

“A battery in 2008 and here you are before the court for GBH.

“The assault is aggravated by the fact that it took place in a busy shopping precinct on a Saturday afternoon.

“It involved the kicking of a man on the ground and it needs no reminder from me that kicking someone to the head on the ground can cause significant damage.”