A CROOK spared jail for trying to get rid of a dealer's car containing heroin with a potential street value of £170,000 has been locked up after intending to supply cannabis.

Farhaan Zaroof, 22, had been given nine months in prison, suspended for a year, with 160 hours unpaid work in February.

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He and another man had arranged to move the vehicle, which had a stash of drugs and cutting agents inside, to try and stop police finding it.

He had admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Five months after being sentenced police searched his Nelson home and found four ounces of cannabis, in four separate bags, each containing 28 grams and worth between £700 and £1,100, in the glove compartment of a Mitsubishi 4x4 vehicle parked outside.

Drugs ‘paraphernalia’ such as a grinder and several telephones were in the house. Cash to the tune of £350 was also discovered.

The hearing was told Zaroof was bailed and was stopped by police a couple of day later.

Prosecutor Frazer Livesey said he had a large dog with him and ‘effectively used that as a barrier,’ suggesting it would go for the officers.

He then ran off, leaving the animal. A month later, the defendant was approached by police in the street and threw some cannabis into bushes before running off.

Cannabis addict Zaroof, of Berkeley Street, was jailed for a total of eight months, for what Judge Beverley Lunt described as a ‘catalogue of crime’.

He had admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply, committed on July 15, and had been committed for sentence by magistrates, after being convicted of obstructing police, and possessing cannabis on August 23. The defendant will face a proceeds of crime hearing in February.

Peter Gilmour, defending, said it was not suggested Zaroof was involved in the supply process of the heroin. He said it would be unjust to activate the suspended term, as Zaroof had spent a month on remand, had been curfewed and done 130 hours of the 160 hours unpaid work.

Passing sentence, Judge Lunt said: “You completely missed the point of the suspended sentence. The most important point is you don't commit offences. There must be an immediate prison sentence.”