A man has been jailed for 10 years after committing drug offences while on bail for an earlier charge of supplying heroin to an undercover police officer in Huddersfield.

Leeds Crown Court heard Mohammed Akram already had a record for similar offences before his two recent arrests making him liable for a minimum sentence.

He was jailed at Bradford Crown Court in 2006 for three years six months for supplying and possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply and at the same court in January 2011 received four years for supplying drugs.

John Bull prosecuting said Akram was on licence for that offence when an undercover officer part of Operation Overwood targeting dealers in Kirklees, was supplied with a wrap of heroin by him on December 3, 2013.

The officer had been talking to a drug user and went along with him when he said he was going to buy some from his supplier. They walked to an address in Manchester Road, Thornton Lodge, Huddersfield where the user went inside.

He appeared a few minutes later with Akram who supplied the officer with the wrap. He was not arrested until after the operation concluded the following June. He denied he was the person involved.

He was recalled on his licence and after completing his previous sentence was bailed. Officers were monitoring his home address in Manchester Road and became suspicious at the number of people visiting for short periods of time.

A search warrant was executed but the heroin he was intending to deal was then recovered from an adjacent property to which he had access. There were 38 wraps of heroin worth £380 and £685 cash and a small amount of cannabis was recovered from him.

Akram, 38, was convicted by a jury of supplying heroin to the undercover officer and admitted possession with intent to supply heroin and possessing cannabis.

Jailing him for a total of 10 years, Judge Peter Benson said following his earlier arrest as part of Operation Overwood “you were known to be a source of heroin.”

That led to a further raid and the discovery of a quantity of the drug which meant there had to be consecutive terms of seven years and three years.