Jealous drug dealer had crack cocaine worth £8,000 in JD sports bag when he smashed girlfriend’s window at house in Leeds

Kye Lockwood was arrested after his partner called police when he smashed the window at her home in Seacroft Leeds.

Leeds Crown Court heard officers went to the property in a police car on February 6 this year and saw the 24-year-old go into a nearby garden.

Lockwood ran off when the officers got out of the car.

Bev Wright, prosecuting, said Lockwood was carrying a JD Sports bag and it got caught on a gate as he tried to flee.

The prosecutor said the bag contained 547 individual wraps of crack cocaine which had a street value of £8,205.

A small amount of heroin was also found inside a small plastic tub.

A knife was recovered from the bag.

Lockwood told the officers he was carrying the knife as someone had just tried to stab him and he had taken the weapon from them.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a class A drug with intent to supply, possession of a bladed article and criminal damage.

Michael Walsh, mitigating, said Lockwood accepted he would be given a prison sentence for the offences.

He said Lockwood was being held on remand at Armley jail and was finding the experience frightening due to the coronavirus epidemic.

Mr Walsh said: "He is allowed exercise for a very short period of time but that is in a reasonably confined space with lots of other people.

"The news as it is has not escaped Mr Lockwood.

"But he is the author of his own downfall."

Lockwood was jailed for two years and four months.

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