A rogue cocaine dealer, who sold crushed paracetamol to nightclubbers looking to get high at a landmark gay venue, was caught after undercover police posed as would-be mug punters.
Irishman John Doyle, 29, loitered outside Fire night-club, Parry Street, Vauxhall (pictured) and agreed to sell drugs to the officers, who arrested him on the spot.
A year earlier he was convicted of a similar offence when selling white powder wrapped in tissue, which he tried to pass off as cocaine in gay heartland Brewer Street, Soho.
Doyle pleaded guilty to offering to supply class A drugs and possessing articles for fraud on April 23 and was placed on a 12-month supervision order with a drug rehabilitation requirement.
Southwark Crown Court heard the unsuspecting defendant asked the officers: "Do you want cocaine or ketamine?"
Doyle directed the police down a nearby alleyway and as he pulled a wrap from his trousers was arrested.
He confessed choosing the spot because he could easily hear people approaching and was raising cash to fund his own drug addiction.
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