A court has heard how two "foot-soldiers" turned to dealing drugs to try to pay off their debts.

Mark Yeadon, 31, and Shafiq Khan, 28, were already serving sentences for selling class A drugs when they appeared at Bradford Crown Court to be sentenced for similar offences.

Prosecutor Duncan Richie told the court both defendants were jailed last year for their part in selling drugs but had been caught again before they were sentenced.

Mr Richie said when police stopped their car in April last year they recovered 15 wraps of crack cocaine and 15 of heroin.

The defendants were released on bail but were not charged until December.

Barristers for both men said they should have been sentenced for all matters together and, if they had, these offences would not substantially increase the sentenced.

Judge Terence Walsh agreed and jailed Yeadon, of Birchfield, Thornton and Khan, of Common Gardens for six months to run concurrently to their present sentences.

The court was told that Khan also had £1,400 on him at the police station which the judge confiscated.