TWO "educated and intelligent" street drug dealers have received lengthy prison sentences after they were caught red-handed with a stock of 126 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine.

Mudassar Nazar-Akhtar, 37, and Nadeem Khan, 39, who have seven children between them, were arrested selling Class A drugs from a car in Girlington, Bradford.

Nazar-Akhtar, of Green Lane, off Lumb Lane, Manningham, Bradford, was imprisoned for three years four months.

Khan, a former civil servant, of Lime Street, Great Horton, Bradford, was jailed for two years eight months.

Both pleaded guilty to possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply, at 11am on April 24 last year.

Prosecutor Mehran Nassiri told Bradford Crown Court today that police in an unmarked patrol vehicle saw the men selling drugs from a Peugeot car.

Khan drove down a cul-de-sac and reversed into a fence post trying to escape from the officers.

Nazar-Akhtar threw seven wraps of heroin and cocaine out of the car window.

A further 119 wraps of drugs were seized from the back seat of the vehicle.

Mr Nassiri said the drugs haul was valued at £618.

Nazar-Akhtar had £205 on him and a dealer list in his wallet.

Khan's barrister, Shufqat Khan, said he was a doctor's son with a degree in politics.

He was employed by the Department of Work and Pensions before starting his own business running a deli bar.

Khan, a father-of-three, began taking drugs when his business and his marriage failed and his home was repossessed.

He met up with an old university friend who introduced him to Class A drugs, telling him: "Have some of this, you'll forget all your problems."

Khan's heroin habit cost him his job in a cafe and he was earning £100 a day street drug dealing to pay his dealer.

His remorse was genuine. "He is not just ashamed, he is mortified," Mr Khan said.

Imran Khan, for Nazar-Akhtar, said he was the father-of-four but his marriage had broken down.

He was unemployed and selling drugs after accepting them "on tick".

He too had a university degree but he had been using Class A drugs for five years.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said both defendants were educated and intelligent.

Khan had no previous convictions but Akhtar had been in trouble recently for offences of theft.

Judge Thomas told the men: "You chose to supply Class A drugs on the streets of Bradford. It was wholesale and wholescale drug supply in a slick, professional way.

"You were both caught absolutely red-handed with more than 100 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine to supply on the street.

"It was persistent and flagrant drug supplying in this city."