A recovering alcoholic, who downed fifteen cans of lager at the end of a nine-day drinking binge after splitting with his girlfriend, was caught with eight rocks of crack cocaine by police.
Jobless Jay Bull, 45, of 13 Hutton Close, Hertford was completing a seven-month residential alcohol rehabilitation treatment in Shoreditch when he fell off the wagon.
He pleaded guilty at City of London Magistrates’ Court (pictured) to possessing the class A drug in Lime Street on August 17 and was conditionally discharged for two years.
“He said he had recently split with his girlfriend and wanted to get wasted and that day had drunk fifteen cans of lager,” said prosecutor Miss Alexa Morgan.
Bull had been stopped and searched by suspicious police who found seven rocks in the defendant’s pocket and one in his hand.
He tested negative for illicit drugs at the police station.
Bull admitted spending £90 on the drugs.
The crack was forfeited and destroyed and Bull was also ordered to pay £85 costs.
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