A TEENAGER who sold class A drugs to pay off a cannabis debt has been spared jail.

And Swindon judge Jason Taylor QC told Kameran Muhid he hoped the 19-year-old would “make something of his life”.

In January, Swindon Crown Court heard Muhid – then 17 – had been living alone in Swindon when he was snared in an undercover police operation targeting dealers in the town.

Officers pretending to be drug addicts had called a drugs line called “X” and ordered “four light and two dark”, slang for wraps of crack cocaine and heroin respectively.

The officers were told to go to Broad Street, Broadgreen, where they found another addict waiting to be supplied.

Muhid arrived on a bicycle and handed over drugs to the first addict but had to cycle off in order to pick up more stock for the undercover policeman.

Interviewed by police, he said he had dealt drugs in order to pay off a cannabis debt and had turned his back on the trade before his 18th birthday. He had resolved to change his ways.

That was thrown into question at the crown court this week after it emerged he had been under investigation at the time of his last hearing for a nightclub affray and a separate assault matter.

Emma Hingston, defending, told the judge the incidents had pre-dated his last court hearing and so – importantly – had not been committed in the six months since his sentence had been deferred.

Judge Taylor gave him the requirements of his deferred sentence – remain in employment and stay out of trouble.

Muhid had lost his job during the coronavirus lockdown, although the judge said he would not hold that against him.

He acknowledged the other matters, but told the teenager: “The long and short of it is you haven’t committed any further offences since I gave you an opportunity on January 3 and I’m going to stick by my word.”

Muhid, of Russ Avenue, Faringdon, pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to supplying heroin and crack cocaine.

Sentencing Muhid to two years’ imprisonment suspended for two years, Judge Taylor said: “I think you can – notwithstanding your disappointment about these two new matters – make something of your life and I am going to give you that chance in the sincere hope that the criminal chapter of your life is now closed.”

He must complete 200 hours of unpaid work and 20 rehabilitation activity days.