An ex-prisoner - caught red-handed by police mixing £400 worth of cocaine while on parole - has been locked-up for another four years and eight months by the same judge.
Trainee welder Sean Russell, 29, of The Approach, Orpington, Kent was wearing disposable gloves and had already prepared 22 wraps of the drug, which he had cut down to just 12% purity.
He pleaded guilty at Bromley Magistrates' Court to possessing cocaine, with intent to supply, on March 3 and was committed to Croydon Crown Court for sentencing.
The court heard Russell had been released on licence eight months earlier from a five-year robbery sentence, but local police obtained a search warrant to raid the house he shares with girlfriend Toni and her daughter.
When officers entered the defendant was mixing a white powder in a breakfast bowl, which later tested positive for cocaine.
Police also discovered tell-tale messages on his answerphone from users wanting to buy cocaine.
"You have got noone to blame, but yourself for the situation you have reached and any sentence I impose will impact more on your nearest and dearest than you. That's always the way," said Judge Simon Pratt.
"In breach of your licence you became involved in drug-dealing as a low-level retail supplier," added the judge, who has also sentence Russell for the robbery.
The defendant, who has committed twenty-eight previous offences, claimed as a drug-user he was forced into the offence to pay-off dealers.
"You have a bad record and I am sorry to see you back, being the judge who gave you your last sentence," added Judge Pratt.
"I have every sympathy for those you have left to get on with life without you."
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