A "THIRD strike" drug dealer jailed for more than five years had brought shame and despair on his family by his "grim and insatiable need for cocaine", his barrister told Bradford Crown Court.

Elyas Patel said his client Mohammed Kayani's life had been blighted by his five year addiction to Class A drugs.

At the age of 23, he had already amassed three convictions for "peddling woe and misery on the streets of Bradford" through drug dealing.

Kayani, of Smith Street, Heaton, Bradford, was imprisoned for seven years, minus 20 per cent credit for his guilty plea, for possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply on November 16 last year.

Prosecutor Richard Walters told the court that police spotted Kayani drug dealing from a silver Toyota Yaris in Church Street, Manningham, at 6.30pm.

He backed into a patrol vehicle blocking him in a bid to get away but officers smashed the windscreen of his vehicle and arrested him.

Kayani was seen throwing a package into the car footwell which contained 17 wraps of heroin and 11 of crack cocaine.

His phone and £25 in cash were also seized.

Kayani told the police he was dealing to fund a debt he had amassed through his cocaine use and also to pay for repairs to a vehicle he had damaged in an accident.

He told officers his drugs bosses directed him by phone to where their clients were waiting.

Kayani was locked up for three years in 2013 for his second conviction for Class A drug dealing.

Mr Patel said: "He is yet another young person whose life has been blighted by the misuse of Class A drugs. He has been out for a third time peddling woe and misery on the streets."

Kayani's family were ashamed and in despair, the court was also told.

He became addicted to drugs at 18 and five years later was facing a seven year prison term as a "third striker", said Mr Patel.

"The grim and insatiable need for drugs led him into dealing and only he can decide his future fate," he said.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, acknowledged that Kayani had a good side, supporting his family and helping to care for a disabled neighbour.

But jailing him for five years and eight months, Judge Thomas said: "This city sees far too much of the misuse of Class A drugs."