A DRUG dealer caught with a stash of cocaine and a homemade stun gun hidden at his address has been jailed for two years and two months.

Jordan Mathers had bags of Class A drugs at his home and a box containing the taser when the police searched the premises two years ago, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Mathers, 28, of Whiteways, Bolton Lane, Bradford, was arrested shortly after midnight on August 10, 2020, after police officers attended at his home on an unrelated matter, prosecutor Abdul Shakoor said.

An officer noticed a buzzing sound from a box she picked up in his bedroom and found the homemade taser. The court heard it was in working order and capable of discharging a high voltage electrical current.

A tin box contained drugs and there were more in another room upstairs. In all there was £245 worth of cocaine and crack cocaine at the property, along with dealer scales and plastic bags and a phone with evidence of drugs trafficking on it.

Mathers at first denied any wrongdoing, saying all the drugs were for his own use, and it wasn’t his stun gun, but he went on to plead guilty to possession of cocaine and crack cocaine with intent to supply and possession of the taser.

Mr Shakoor said the cocaine was of low purity, up to 55 per cent.

Mathers had 15 previous convictions for 16 offences, including simple possession of cocaine and cannabis, but nothing for drug dealing.

His solicitor advocate, Saf Salam, said he was selling drugs to a circle of people he knew, largely to meet his own habit. He had been using cocaine since 2017 and could not afford to pay for it.

There was no suggestion that the taser would ever have been used. It was stored in a box away from the drugs.

Mathers was a family man involved in selling drugs at a low level and he had not been in any trouble since, Mr Salam said.

Judge Ahmed Nadim acknowledged that he was funding his own addiction by supplying to a limited circle of friends.

But he had been working as a drug dealer, with a stun gun as a tool, and he had not indicated a guilty plea at an early stage.

Judge Nadim ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cocaine, the taser and all the drug dealing paraphernalia.