A MAN was caught with a haul of cannabis, hundreds of tablets of tranquilisers and a stun gun after a police raid, a court heard.

Prosecutors claim that when police went to David Boiling's Littlemore home they found all the 'tools of the trade' for a drug dealing operation.

A jury was told at Oxford Crown Court today that the weapon seized in a kitchen drawer could have been there for 'protection or defence.'

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The 45-year-old of Sandford Road, Oxford denies three counts alleging possession with intent to supply drugs and possession of a prohibited weapon.

Prosecutors claim that he had cannabis; a class B drug, as well as Diazepam and Alprazolam; both class C drugs.

Outlining the case prosecutor Kim Preston told the jury of six men and six women at the start of his trial that the drugs were found at his then home address at Northfield Close, Oxford, on June 6 2018.

She said that when police went to that flat they 'found what can only be described as all the tools of the trade of a drug dealer.'

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She said: "There are drugs in various places around the flat, they are strewn about.

"Cannabis, tablets that have an illegal market, that are tranquilisers."

The jury was told that the total amount of drugs found was 173.9g of cannabis, 840 tablets of Diazepam and 305 tablets of Alprazolam.

The cannabis was divided into 152.1g of skunk cannabis together with 32 small deal bags found in drawer, weighing 21.8g.

Ms Preston said that police also discovered at the one-bedroom home electronic scales which she said were precisely accurate so to be 'commonly used in drug deals.'

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The prohibited weapon found at the address, she said, was a stun gun capable of discharging electricity.

She said: "The prosecution say that it is found in this defendant's house.

"No doubt [for] if he feels threatened by the sorts of people he may be selling drugs to.

"Or used for his own protection or defence to make him feel he has got a weapon should he need one."

Jurors went on to hear that Boiling was arrested while officers continued their search and taken to the police station where he was interviewed.

Asked who lived at the address, prosecutors said, Boiling said he was the sole occupant.

Boiling also told police, the court heard, that nobody else was responsible for the items inside other than himself.

After, he declined to answer any other questions that officers put to him.

Ms Preston went on: "The prosecution say [the drugs found] demonstrates fairly categorically that this was a man who is preparing and dividing illegal drugs in his home for onward distribution to others."

Boiling denies all the charges and the trial - expected to last up to three days - continues.