AN ADDICT caught with more than 70 wraps of drugs has been jailed for 11 months.

William White admitted hiding the drugs under his clothing when officers swooped on a car he was in.

Sentencing the 31-year-old yesterday, Judge Ian Pringle QC shrugged his shoulders as he heard prosecutors did not deem White to be a drug dealer, telling the defendant he was ‘very fortunate’.

Prosecutor Madelaine Charlesworth admitted there were ‘a lot’ of drugs seized but confirmed the Crown Prosecution Service had decided to charge White only with drugs possession.

Oxford Crown Court heard police spotted ‘drug use’ in the passenger seat of a silver Vauxhall Vectra in Nuffield Close, Bicester, on January 30.

Nothing was uncovered when the car was searched but police found 31 wraps of heroin and 46 wraps of amphetamine in White’s jogging bottoms.

Officers also discovered £155, with White claiming he was planning to deposit £150 for a friend.

Defence barrister Ronan McCann told the court White, who must pay a victim surcharge, had been caught with a ‘significant’ stash of drugs.

White, of no fixed abode, admitted possessing heroin, a class A drug, and amphetamine, a class B drug, on January 30.

He also admitted committing a further offence while subject to a suspended sentence order. Judge Pringle ordered forfeiture and destruction of the drugs and paraphernalia.