Last updated 05:20, Friday, 09 May 2008

A HEROIN addict sold drugs from a plastic Kinder egg container, Carlisle Crown Court heard yesterday.

Mark Kenney, 28, of Eldon Drive, Harraby, was seen by detectives selling two wraps containing the drug – worth £10 each – to a woman outside Harraby Catholic Club on January 11.

After a search it was revealed that he had 12 wraps containing the class A drug in the plastic container.

A judge sentenced Kenney, who has 40 previous convictions, to 20 months in prison yesterday after he admitted possessing heroin and selling it .

Recorder David Williams told him: “I have no doubt that you are a busy street dealer. The method and how the wraps of heroin were concealed indicate that.”

“I accept that you were doing this to finance your own addiction.”

Prosecutor Roger Green said that detectives watched Kenney sell the drugs to the woman at around 2.30pm in the afternoon.

But when questioned he told them “I was looking at her mobile phone”.

The drugs were tested and found to be the same purity as the two sold wraps.

Kenney later said that he had bought the two grams of heroin from a man at Tesco and was responsible for cutting and packaging it into the £10 wraps.

Andrew Carney, defending, said Kenney has been a heroin addict for 10 years and supplied drugs to known users only to fund his habit.

Kenney had already spent 117 days in custody.