A motorcycling drug dealer was nabbed by the police for riding his machine without a helmet and with no number plates.

Shamis Nadeem, 22, of Woodhall Park Crescent East, Stanningley, was caught in Barkerend Road, Bradford, on November 23 last year with 47 wraps of class A drugs.

He pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court yesterday[fri]I.

Nadeem, who was on prison licence after being locked up for dangerous driving, threw most of his drugs stash into a bush.

He was spotted by police officers who found more drugs on him.

Nadeem’s barrister, James Bourne-Arton, said he had been dealing for two to three weeks to pay off an £800 debt for “clothes and things”.

He was not a drug user himself.

He was right at the bottom of the drugs supply chain and was training to be a painter and decorator in prison.

Nadeem was jailed for two years and 14 weeks.