A drug user who got involved in street level dealing to try and pay off his drugs debt was yesterday locked up for three years.

Bradford Crown Court heard how Kamran Hussain, 19, of Malsas Road, Knowle Park, Keighley, had been put under pressure by his dealer to start selling drugs because of his mounting debts.

He was caught by officers who were on duty on Oakworth Road last October and saw him sell a wrap of crack cocaine to a known addict.

He was given bail by police but was again ordered back out on to the streets by his dealer, the court heard.

Hussain was then arrested for a second time on Lister Street after he sold heroin and crack cocaine to undercover officers.

Prosecutor Richard Smith said that Hussain was also in breach of his anti-social behaviour order because he was inside an exclusion zone.

His barrister Richard Gioserano told the court that Hussain's dealer had put him under "a great deal of pressure" and added that he was another young man who had been exploited by those higher up the chain.

Sending him to a young offender institution Judge Terry Walsh said: "People like drug dealers are going to get people like you to their dirty business for them."