A CONVICTED drug dealer caught with “crack” between his buttocks has been jailed for six years and nine months.

Darren Perrow was arrested with 56 wraps of cocaine and heroin on his person when the police caught him selling drugs from a Ford Focus on Sedgwick Close, off Lumb Lane in Bradford on April 12.

Perrow, of Rochester Street, Shipley, was the front seat passenger in the vehicle, prosecutor Andrew Horton told Bradford Crown Court.

Four phones were also seized, along with cash and more wraps of Class A drugs.

In all, 94 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin were discovered worth £500.

When Perrow’s home was searched, officers found dealer lists, Mr Horton said.

Perrow told the police he was an unemployed crack cocaine addict who paid for his drugs by gambling.

On May 8, he was again spotted drug dealing, the court was told.

This time he was alone in a Volkswagen Golf on Oak Lane, Manningham, Bradford.

The vehicle had no registered keeper, Mr Horton said.

Two drug users got into the car and Perrow drove them down a cul-de-sac but he noticed the police following him and ran from the vehicle.

He was apprehended after fleeing on foot, dropping 40 wraps of Class A drugs.

Mr Horton said that Perrow had £86 in cash with him.

In total, 134 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine, valued at £750, were seized by the police in the two drugs busts.

Perrow had 42 previous convictions for 123 offences.

In 2010, he was jailed for more than four years for drug dealing and dangerous driving.

This time, he pleaded guilty to four charges of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs on two occasions.

Perrow’s solicitor advocate, Amarpal Singh, said his client had been a drug user almost throughout his life.

Perrow had not committed any offences since being freed from prison in 2012.

He was a cocaine user and had a crack pipe in his possession both times the police arrested him.

Perrow owed his dealer a debt and was selling drugs to pay it off and to fund his habit.

Judge Jonathan Rose conceded that Perrow had not had an easy life.

The court heard he had suffered loss and depression and self-medicated with illegal drugs.

“Drug dealers depend on users like you to get into debt and then sell their drugs for them,” Judge Rose said.

The message to Perrow and to others like him was not to resort to criminality if they found themselves in that position.

Perrow was jailed for three years for the first set of offences and three years and nine months for reoffending.

The sentences are set to run consecutively.