A young cocaine dealer broke both his legs jumping from a roof as he tried to flee from a police raid, a court has heard. Ieuan Llewelyn was part of a gang of four young men who were supplying "significant quantities" of the Class A drug to users in and around Swansea.
As officers swooped on the flat which the group was using as a base for their dealing operation Llewelyn climbed out of a window onto a flat roof and then jumped to the ground - an attempt to escape which left him badly injured and unable to walk for seven months.
Llewelyn's fellow dealers were jailed last year but it was only this week that he came to be sentenced. Swansea Crown Court heard the 22-year-old has very limited previous convictions, and sending him down a judge said it was disturbing that the courts were seeing more and more young people with limited or no criminal histories appearing in the dock charged with trafficking Class A drugs.
