Justice finally caught up with a drug-dealer today - who fled to Spain 10 years ago receiving a 1m Euro fine for similar crimes in Benidorm - when he received 19 months for the decade-old offences.
Gavin Mead, 47, from Beckenham, South-East London jumped bail in 2000 and headed for the Costa del crime, where he continued dealing drugs.
He pleaded guilty at Croydon Crown Court (pictured) to possessing 3928 gms and 701 gms of canabis, plus 971 gms of methylamphetamine - known as 'chrystal meth' - with intent to supply in Bromley on December 8, 2000.
Mead has been in custody since October 10, 2008 when arrested by Spanish police for drug offences and was extradited back to the UK.
While in custody drug-user Mead tested positive for heroin, cocaine and cannabis.
"You made a complete hash of this," Judge Simon Pratt told the defendant. "One is tempted to say: 'If you can't do the time. Don't do the crime'."
He sentenced Mead to fifteen months imprisonment for the three drug offences, plus four months for jumping bail.
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