A BRADFORD man has been jailed for three and a half years after a stash of high purity Class A drugs worth £2,800 was seized from a house in the city.

Police raiding the property in Rooley Crescent, Odsal, Bradford, found packages of cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin hidden in the toilet cistern, behind the garage and in the kitchen.

Officers from Dudley Hill Police Station heard the upstairs toilet being flushed while they were gaining entry to the address, prosecutor Nadim Bashir told Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

They were acting on information when they raided the property with a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Ikram Hussain, who was in the house when police officers forced the rear door at 7.40am, pleaded guilty to three offences of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply, on September 21 last year.

He also pleaded guilty to possession of £730 of criminal money found at the address.

Hussain, 24, of Marshfields Street, Marshfields, Bradford, was locked up for 18 months at Sheffield Crown Court in 2012 for possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.

He was committed to the Crown Court for sentence from Barnsley Magistrates Court.

Drugs were found in a white plastic bag wrapped in a paper towel behind the garage of the Bradford house.

The haul from that location included crack cocaine at 61 per cent purity and heroin at 60 per cent purity, Mr Bashir told the court.

More drugs were found in little bags floating in the toilet cistern and drugs and scales were discovered in a kitchen cupboard.

Cash was seized from the fireplace and from a pair of shorts in the main bedroom.

Hussain, who had denied that there were any illegal drugs in the house, then stated they were for his personal use. After his arrest, he told the police in a prepared statement that he was a drug user, under a lot of stress and pressure at the time.

He gave ‘no comment’ answers to further questions in interview.

Mr Bashir said the cocaine and crack cocaine seized added up to 28.33 grams, with a street value of £2,439.

The heroin weighed a total of 7.52 grams and had a street value of £376.

Mr Bashir said Hussain was motivated by financial gain and had a relevant previous conviction.