A ‘third strike’ drug dealer was selling heroin in Oxfordshire just weeks before he was sent down for peddling class As outside Swindon Town’s football stadium.

Jerome Sewell, 26, had the class A drug in Bicester on January 6 last year.

Just three weeks later, he was given five years and eight months by a judge at Swindon Crown Court after he was snared in an undercover police operation in the Wiltshire town.

Appearing before Oxford Crown Court on Friday morning via video link from Bullingdon prison, Sewell pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply a class A drug.

Sewell, who was wearing a Nike jumper with the slogan ‘Just Do It’ emblazoned across the chest, spoke only to confirm his name and plea.

Judge Michael Gledhill QC told the Londoner: “Jerome Sewell, you will be brought to court on November 1, when you will discover your fate. I don’t know who the judge will be, but you are to expect an immediate sentence of imprisonment, particularly bearing in mind you are a third strike drug dealer.”

Last year, Swindon Crown Court heard that Sewell was working for the ‘Jimmy’ drugs line when he met an undercover police officer, known by the moniker ‘Steve’, outside the football club’s County Ground stadium in August 2019.

‘Steve’ got a call from the dealers asking for his order before Sewell broke away from a group of five or six men and took £25 in exchange for two wraps of crack cocaine and one wrap of heroin.

A week later, on August 14, the cop was again texted by the line. He placed his order and was told to meet a runner. There were a number of addicts waiting to be supplied with drugs. A van pulled up and one of the occupants directed the users to an alleyway nearby.

Later that day, Sewell was stopped by police in Swindon town centre. He tried to get away and, when caught, was found to have a number of mobile phones and sim cards, more than 50 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin and £321 in cash.

Jailing him for five years and eight months last January, Judge Peter Crabtree said: “Anyone who is involved in the supply of class A drugs is involved in criminality that wrecks lives and undermines the fabric of society.”

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