Dealer offered undercover cop free drugs

Jermaine Moran, now 20 but only 19 at the time, was also supplying cocaine Nottingham Crown Court heard.

He told the officer that if he bought drugs every day for a week he would get free drugs on Sunday, said Sue Matthews (prosecuting).

On Monday March 9, the undercover officer rang Moran and arranged to meet him to buy two wraps of heroin for 15.

The following day the officer rang again and was told first to go to Broxtowe Lane in Aspley but was then re-directed somewhere else.

Two days later he was told to go to Chatham Court, Bulwell, where Moran arrived in a silver Vauxhall Astra car. The officer paid 15 for heroin and cocaine.

Further transactions in March took place at a bridge over the tramline in Bulwell, a location in Broxtowe and at Seaton Crescent in Aspley.

When arrested, Moran said he was working for someone else but refused to name the person.

He previously had a good job at a power station but lost it.

His barrister, Nicola Hornby, said he got into debt as a result of his own drug use and became involved in the enterprise which led to his arrest.

Moran, now of Halls Street, Alvaston, Derby had pleaded guilty.

Judge Dudley Bennett said Moran had only a minor record in the past and had never been to custody.

But this was organised, commercial drug-dealing.

"There were at least eight separate occasions where heroin and cocaine were supplied," said the judge to Moran. "You even offered buy six, get one free, which indicates you had access to a stash."