A judge warned persistent cannabis dealers that they will be jailed when he locked up a man for 12 months for his fourth offence of selling the drug.

Aaron Gill was caught with £97 worth of skunk cannabis and £330 in cash when the police stopped his VW Golf in Hartland Road on the Holme Wood estate in Bradford on August 31 last year.

Gill, 25, of Fagley Place, Fagley, also had a small amount of cocaine on him that was for his personal use. He pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis with intent to supply and simple possession of cocaine.

Prosecutor Camille Morland told Bradford Crown Court on Monday that Gill had previous convictions for selling cannabis, dating from 2012 and 2013. He first received a community order and then a suspended sentence order for two further offences.

Gill’s barrister, James Bourne-Arton, said it was low level street dealing to help to fund his client’s own cannabis habit.

Gill was the registered carer for his mother and had been no trouble since his arrest last August.

But Judge Jonathan Rose said: “It is illegal to possess cannabis and illegal to distribute it.”

Previous court penalties had not dissuaded Gill from selling it.

“This is a warning to others who supply cannabis that they will eventually go to prison,” Judge Rose said.

He told Gill: “You don’t provide any care for your mother when you are sitting smoking cannabis.”