A DRUGS dealer whose girlfriend hid his stash in her private parts has been jailed for 32 months.

Cameron Sephton, of Woodstock Road, Oxford, previously admitted two counts of possessing Class A drugs, heroin and crack cocaine, with intent to supply.

He appeared at Oxford Crown Court for sentencing this week.

The 30-year-old was arrested on March 11 after a police officer saw him acting suspiciously in Woodstock Road, between the Maison Blanc bakery and Brown’s bar and brasserie.

He was found to be carrying £250 cash and several mobile phones, so officers decided to search the flat he shared with his girlfriend, Georgina Cavanagh.

At the property they found his partner, who appeared nervous and under the influence of drugs.

She was arrested and was found to have hidden 50 cling film wraps of crack cocaine and 32 wraps of heroin inside a condom in her private parts.

Sephton told police the drugs belonged to him alone, admitted dealing and said Cavanagh had nothing to do with them.

The wraps’ street value was estimated by the police to be as much as £1,700, but Sephton argued he was only expecting to make £650 from selling them.

The court heard that he has 12 previous convictions for 34 offences and started taking drugs when he was just 12.

In 2002 he tied up a 14-year-old boy with a mobile phone charger cable during a burglary in a south Oxfordshire village.

He was handed six years in prison after pleading guilty to burglary, false imprisonment and dangerous driving, but had his sentence cut to five years by the court of appeal.

Richard Lister, defending, said Sephton was only dealing to pay off a drug debt and because he was afraid of being beaten up.

He said: “He now has a desperation to engage with drug services. He sees a future for himself which is better now than it was a few months ago.

“And he has a partner who stands behind him.”

Passing sentence for his latest offences, Judge Mary Jane Mowat said Sephton had been operating as an “active street dealer”.

She said: “I accept that you were an addict and that you may well have got yourself into debt with the people supplying you.

“You were a street dealer at a pretty low level.”