AN “immature and naive” teenager has been spared an immediate custodial sentence for storing a stash of cocaine and cannabis at his home.

“Some people will think I am being very lenient. I don’t think so in this case,” the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC told Umar Khan.

Khan was locked up last month at Bradford Crown Court to await sentence for possession of Class A and Class B drugs with intent to supply.

Judge Durham Hall was told at that hearing that Khan, 19, of Thornbury Avenue, Bradford, dreamed of setting up his own drugs supply line to buy fast cars.

The judge remanded him in custody for a probation report to determine if he was “wicked or silly.”

Yesterday, Khan was sentenced to 20 months in a young offender institution, suspended for two years, with a six month curfew order and 250 hours of unpaid work.

“If you re-offend in the next two years, I will lock you up,” Judge Durham Hall told him.

Khan’s barrister, Shufqat Khan, said the teenager’s family were in court to support him.

He had found his time in custody an isolating experience and spent most of it in his cell.

Khan was arrested after the police searched his room on January 31 and seized almost 45 grams of cocaine and 78 grams of cannabis.

Messages on his computer referred to setting up a dealer line to pay off a cannabis debt and buy high performance cars.

Mr Khan, said the teenager, who was 18 at the time, was holding on to the cocaine for his dealer. He had no previous convictions and he had been threatened with violence over a cannabis debt.