A DRUG dealer who was given a chance by a judge and spared jail has been locked up after he breached a community order.
Daniel Wade was handed the rehabilitative penalty in January 2018 for charges relating to the supply of cocaine and heroin.
The 32-year-old of High Acres, Banbury appeared again at Oxford Crown Court yesterday after he breached that order.
The court heard that Wade was first sentenced for delivering drugs to an undercover officer twice.
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He admitted being a 'runner' for a drugs line known as the 'Frank line.'
After he was handed a community order for the offences he initially completed a residential rehabilitation programme.
It was after he finished that programme that he began failing to comply with his order.
He didn't attend sessions at Turning Point, aimed at tackling his drugs problem and tested positive for drugs during the order.
In mitigation at the sentencing hearing his defence barrister Rhianna Fricker said that her client had suffered with a long-standing addiction to class A drugs.
She said Wade had made 'significant progress' and her client was 'desperate to prove he is not a lost cause.'
Sentencing, Judge Peter Ross said Wade had a 'long period of non-engagement post release.'
He said that the initial sentence was an alternative to a jail term and so he could not order a non-custodial sentence for the offences.
Wade was jailed yesterday for a total of 32 months.
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