A drug user who turned to dealing to pay off debts has been jailed after police caught him selling cocaine and heroin next to Exeter's main train station.
Adrian Reid travelled from his home near Rochdale with around £2,000 of drugs hidden inside his body in ready-to-sell wraps.
He was a user who was pressured into selling the drugs after he ran up debts to his dealer, Exeter Crown Court was told.
He was watched by police after he went to a house near the station and then moved onto the streets to start selling his wares.
Reid, aged 32, of Ormerod Street, Heywood, Greater Manchester admitted possession of heroin and cocaine with intent to supply and was jailed for two years and three months by Judge Francis Gilbert, QC.
The judge told him:"You involved yourself in dealing to raise money to reduce your debt to drug dealers. You had lawful employment but had to give it up because of the impact of your drug abuse.
"Those who involve themselves in the supply of heroin must face immediate imprisonment."
Mr Gordon Richings, prosecuting, said police arrested Reid on November 18 last year as a result of an anti-drugs operation.
He said:"Police believed drugs were being stored at an address in Exeter where the defendant was staying. They noticed someone of his description in the area of St David's Station.
"He admitted he had drugs concealed in his body and was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital where 64 wraps of heroin and seven of cocaine were recovered."
Mr Richings said the heroin weighed 21.62 grams and was worth between £1,000 and £2,000 and the cocaine weighed 2.51 grams and was worth up to £250.
Mr Paul Light, defending, said Reid had no previous involvement in crime but had got into debt after losing his job and agreed to sell drugs to pay it off.
