A MAN who was caught with crack cocaine and heroin between his buttocks has been cleared of drug dealing.

Prosecutors had claimed that James Howkins had the drugs - along with a so-called 'burner phone' and drugs paraphernalia - as part of a drug-dealing operation.

READ AGAIN: The opening of the case earlier this week.

A jury was told that after the class A drugs were found Mr Howkins admitted having the illegal substances but only for 'personal use.'

The 36-year-old of Great Clarendon Street, Oxford denied two counts alleging the possession with intent to supply of class A drugs - crack cocaine and heroin.

He began his trial at Oxford Crown Court earlier this week.

During the case it was said that police detained Mr Howkins in Oxford on May 17 this year.

When he was searched it was claimed that 'he admitted quite frankly that he had class A drugs between his bottom cheeks.'

On arrest he was also found to have two mobile phones on his person; one was a smart phone and the other was described as a 'burner phone.'

The drugs that were found on Mr Howkins, following a strip search at Abingdon Police Station, amounted to 4.57g of crack cocaine and 1.18g of heroin.

At the end of the trial on Wednesday jurors took three hours and 26 minutes to find him unanimously not guilty.