A GREEDY drug dealer who was caught with more than a quarter of a kilogram of cocaine as well as counterfeit money has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.

Police found all the hallmarks of a professional drug dealing operation when they raided Lee Randall’s Gorse Hill home.

As well as almost £10,000 worth of drugs they also found cutting agents, a press for packaging the cocaine and weapons along with the fake money.

And a tick list showed he was owed thousands from customers while his mobile phone was full of messages to a street dealer he was supplying.

Tessa Hingston, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court police armed with a drugs warrant raided the Beatrice Street house in June 2017. Although the property, which was in the process of being renovated, belonged to the defendant’s brother Gavin Randall, she said it was Lee who was living there.

In the house officers found several quantities of cocaine, some of it wrapped for onward sale, at very low purity of about five per cent. They also seized scales, large quantities of benzocaine, which is used as a cutting agent.

And they found a press, a dealer’s list and £265 in £5 notes along with 17 counterfeit £20 notes.

She said the list had debts from a number of people totalling more than £19,900, with almost half of it belonging to someone called Amy.

When his phone was examined it was found to have messages from Amy asking to be reloaded, which is slang for needing more drugs to supply.

He also had an asp and a knuckle duster, which he told police he kept in his van for protection.

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Randall pleaded guilty to possessing drugs with intent to supply and a second charge of having possession or control of counterfeit currency.

Emma Handslip, defending, said while he accepted some of the amounts on the list related to drugs others were for building work.

He had borrowed money from a loan shark and in order to pay it back he agreed to store drugs for people.

But because that was not paying she said he set up his own little operation supplying dealers, as the messages on his phone illustrated.

She said he had a ground working business, with two staff who were self-employed and he took home about £500 a week in wages.

He did not use drugs himself and also had partial custody of his 11-year-old son and there were no issues with social services.

Passing sentence Judge Robert Pawson said: “The police raided the house you were living in and they found all the hallmarks of a professional drug dealing operation.

"To say you were under financial pressure is no excuse whatsoever.

"There are loads of people under financial pressure, but resorting to dealing class A drugs is no way of dealing with it.

“The police seized about a quarter of a kilogram of cocaine.

He told Randall: "You had cut it with benzocaine and you had been greedy, because the Crown tells me the purity of the cocaine was five to six per cent.”