AN M-CAT dealer who kept a stash of drugs in an old Audi TT parked outside his Bradford home has been jailed for ten months.

Terry Teale, 29, pleaded guilty to three offences of possession with intent to supply Class B drugs and one count of simple possession of the Class A drug MDMA, or Ecstasy.

Teale was caught red-handed with M-Cat, Ketamine Hydrochloride and the former legal high Chloroethylcathinone stored for sale at his home in Ewart Street, Great Horton.

Prosecutor Laura Addy told Bradford Crown Court today that police officers executed a drugs warrant at the address at 8.50am on February 8 last year.

They forced entry to the property, where Teale lived alone, and found him in the bedroom.

Along with the drugs, digital scales, grip seal bags, an iPhone and £1,195 in cash were seized from the property.

Teale said nothing when he was arrested and made no comment when he was interviewed by the police.

Miss Addy said the police also seized an Audi TT and a VW Bora from outside the house.

Inside a locked panel in the Audi was M-Cat worth £3,135 and 31 Ecstasy tablets that the prosecution accepted were for Teale’s own use.

Numerous text messages on the iPhone charted the drug dealing, that was mostly to friends. But Teale also sold to “friends of friends,” who were existing drug users, including one buyer called Nightmare Bob who messaged to introduce himself and to order £10 worth of M-Cat.

The court heard that Teale was dealing in Class A drugs but he had stopped by the time of the police investigation.

He had a previous conviction dating from 2015 for supplying M-Cat for which he received a suspended jail sentence.

Teale’s barrister, Balraj Singh Bhatia QC, said he sold drugs to just a “handful” of people outside his circle of friends.

He had been using drugs since he was 17 and had run up a debt.

“This isn’t cynical commercial abuse,” Mr Bhatia told the court. “He has his own problems and difficulties resisting his own addiction.”

Mr Bhatia asked Judge Jonathan Rose to give Teale one final chance to turn his life around.

But the judge said he had his last chance four years ago when he was spared an immediate prison term for drug dealing.

“He is 29 and not 19,” Judge Rose said.

Teale’s dealing operation and been “nipped in the bud” before he could make the circle wider.

Judge Rose ordered that all the drugs and drug paraphernalia be forfeited and that the Audi TT, worth £250, be crushed.