A teenager who breached a youth rehabilitation order imposed for drug dealing has been locked up.

Phillip Badwal, 18, was sentenced to nine months’ youth custody by Judge Peter Benson at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

Prosecutor Ken Green said police attended Badwal’s address, in Airedale Road, Undercliffe, Bradford, in May last year, and found knotted bags containing heroin and crack cocaine, and £750 cash.

Badwal was bailed, but in August police saw him hiding behind a car in Airedale Road. They found more bags of drugs hidden near a wheel of the car. More drugs fell from his clothing when he was searched at the police station.

Mr Green said the defendant had been given a community order, with supervision, a curfew and an extended activity requirement, but he had breached the order.

Badwal’s solicitor advocate, Arshad Mahmood, said his client had completed the curfew and most of the extended activity requirement.

But Judge Benson said: “You were extremely lucky to avoid custody when you were sentenced. There is no alternative but to revoke the order and send you straight to custody. To do otherwise would be to bring the whole system into disrepute.”