A MAN caught supplying more than £3,000 worth of heroin and cocaine from his Bradford home has been jailed.

Iftikhar Hussain, 46, was caught red-handed with the Class A drugs, cutting powder and scales when police searched his address on September 30 last year.

Hussain was locked up for four years.

Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that he tried to pretend the stash of heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine seized from his printer and hidden in compartments in his Peugeot car belonged to someone else.

He went on to plead guilty to three offences of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.

Prosecutor Jayne Beckett said the police executed a search warrant at Hussain’s rented house in Back Girlington Road, just off Duckworth Lane, at 7.30am.

Mrs Beckett said that, in all, Hussain had control of 61 grams of Class A drugs.

He had a lengthy criminal record, the court heard.

His previous offending included offences of assault, robbery, assaulting police officers and possession of drugs.

Judge Neil Davey QC set a timetable for a Proceeds of Crime Application.

The application is designed to seize back any assets paid for by Hussain’s street dealing.

But his barrister, Philip Standfast, said the exercise would prove fruitless.

“He won’t have any assets,” he told the court.

Mr Standfast said Hussain had not requested a probation report because he knew what sentence he would be receiving.

“The defendant has brought his bag with him,” he said.

“He knows he is going to custody. It is just a question of how long,” he added.

Although Hussain was before the courts on many occasions when he was a young man, he had kept out of trouble for ten years before lapsing into more minor offending.

He was a drug user himself, the court heard.

Hussain had resorted to stealing from shops to fund his addiction.

“Shoplifting is not an offence of choice for a practised dealer,” Mr Standfast told the court.

Judge Davey said that Hussain had 28 previous convictions for 54 offences.

Those offences included two, many years earlier, for possession of drugs.

He had played a big role in his street dealing operation, cutting his own drugs and splitting them into deals to sell on.