A BRAIN damaged dealer dropped off heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover police officer in John Street car park.

Jamie Bowers made the drop off on July 11 for the KP drugs line on behalf of a friend. It was less than a month after he was given an 18 month suspended sentence for possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

Activating that suspended sentence in full and adding two-and-a-half years for the new supply matters, Judge Jason Taylor QC said: “Drug dealing is a pernicious trade which leaves lives and families wrecked and anyone involved even as a runner contributes to the carnage that drugs leave behind in their wake.”

Appearing before Swindon Crown Court this morning, 21-year-old Bowers admitted two counts of supplying heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover police officer known only as Steve in July last year.

Defending, Emma Handslip said her client had been recalled to prison on licence and would not be released until at least March.

Bowers had brain damage, was vulnerable and was easily led. He had previously been targeted by drug dealers while in a young offenders' institute in Aylesbury.

He was not a drug user himself.

Bowers' total sentence is four years imprisonment.