A COLLEGE student caught with more than £100,000 of drugs in his bedroom has been jailed for nearly five years.

Bradford Crown Court heard that police raided the home of Awais Hussain, 20, on Rufus Street, Little Horton, Bradford, on the morning of February 21.

Prosecutor Alisha Kaye said officers spoke to the “nervous” Hussain, who then proceeded to direct them to various packages and bags of class A drugs hidden around the house.

The court heard that in a shoebox at the bottom of the defendant’s bed, officers found two blocks of 90 per cent pure cocaine, weighing 2.3kg, with a street value of more than £92,000.

Under the bed in a back bedroom, police discovered packages of drugs including one bag of heroin worth £4,600, plus cash, a set of scales, and glucose, said to have been used as a bulking agent for the drugs.

Officers also found £3,000 of cash in a wardrobe, £1,170 under a mattress, and another £800 in a bedroom along with more bulking agents, food bags, and some latex gloves.

Miss Kaye said that in total, including the two blocks of cocaine, police recovered more than £101,000 worth of heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine, plus around £5,000 in cash, from the property.

She said that on his arrest, Hussain said: “I am a dead man walking. You might as well sign my death certificate now.”

Hussain pleaded guilty to three charges of the possession of class A drugs with an intent to supply. His basis of plea was that he was not involved in any street dealing, but was merely a “custodian” for the blocks of cocaine.

He admitted working as a “bagger” for the smaller amounts of drugs found, but claimed he had been acting “out of fear.”

On Hussain’s role in the operation, Miss Kaye said: “He is more than just a custodian in a lesser role. He is bagging up. He is not just taking a package and handing it back.”

Andrew Dallas, defending, said forensic reports had found that the cocaine blocks weighed 2kg, not the 2.3kg claimed by the prosecution.

He said his client, who he described as being very young with a positive previous good character, had complied with the police search warrant, volunteering information to officers about where the drugs were stored.

Mr Dallas said that in autumn last year, Hussain had started at a new college, trying to progress to university to study physiotherapy.

He said the defendant had been identified by his peers as “someone who could be of use to them as one of several people they could use to keep their drugs with.”

Mr Dallas said that Hussain was “not an inherent criminal type”, but someone who had been “dragged into offending.”

He told the court: “He must now pay the price for that. He is still a frightened young man. There is two kilograms of cocaine missing.”

Judge Colin Burn said while he accepted Hussain was “not a particularly unpleasant or high-profile drug dealer”, his involvement had gone beyond that of a lesser role.

He told him: “You know there can only be one sentence for possession of class A drugs of this amount.

“When police searched your parent’s address, there was a significant number of packages of drugs, here, there, and everywhere really.

“You will be aware of the fact that these amounts of class A drugs would cause significant misery to a great number of addicts.”

Hussain was ordered to serve a sentence of four years and eight months in a young offenders institution.