A VAN driver who led police on a car chase and then faked a fit has been found guilty of possessing crack cocaine and heroin.
Leslie Edwards was found guilty of possessing the Class A drugs, but not guilty of dealing them by a jury of seven women and five men at Oxford Crown Court today.
Edwards, of Medhurst Way in Littlemore, denied possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply - claiming a woman he had dropped off in Marston had left the tin of Class A drugs on his passenger seat.
But he was found guilty of possessing the drugs, although the jury unanimously found him not guilty of supplying them following a three-day trial.
Edwards led police on a car chase around Headington at about 12.30am on September 16 last year in a silver Citroen.
The 56-year-old eventually stopped in Stonor Place, where the court heard he faked an epileptic fit and tried to throw away the tin of drugs.
Prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson told the court on Wednesday how Edwards had a "melodramatic" fake fit, and threw the drug tin under his car.
The tin was found to contain 14 individually wrapped bags of a brown powder and waxy white solid which Mr Ward-Jackson said was heroin and crack cocaine.
After searching Edwards' car, police found nine more bags of drugs and about £630 of cash.
Mr Ward-Jackson told the jury how Edwards had 2.18g of heroin and 4.06g of crack cocaine with a street value of about £380.
Edwards was released on bail to return to the same court for sentence on July 1.
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