A drug dealer, caught selling cocaine and heroin in Strood, has been locked up for more than five years.

Andrew Gaffney, 42, drove onto a pavement while attempting to flee patrols in Lancelot Avenue last month.

He was stopped after being wedged between a police car and telephone box.

Officers found more than £500 in his car along with mobile phones and cocaine.

After being arrested police searched the wider area and found a bag he threw from the car and inside it was a large amount of heroin and cocaine.

Gaffney, of Toad Hall Crescent, Chattenden, pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing class A drugs with the intent to supply at Maidstone Crown Court.

Last Tuesday, March 13, he was jailed for five years and eight months.

DC Rebecca Ward, who investigated the case, said: "Officers worked swiftly to bring Gaffney before the courts and get him, and the drugs he pushes, off the streets of Medway.

"No one is allowed to benefit from crime.

"We’ll now be looking into Gaffney’s background and lifestyle with the aim to seize anything he gained through illegitimate means."