A cocaine dealer was caught with drugs stashed down his trousers on a convenience store car park.
Philip Legge turned to trafficking illicit substances after racking up crippling gambling debts. The dad-of-four cried as he was jailed over his secret activities yesterday, Wednesday.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that police on patrol in the Crosby area in February this year spotted the 45-year-old's BMW 3 Series stop at the Tesco Express store on Coronation Road before a man walked out of a nearby house and entered the passenger seat. They then observed a "short conversation and a hand-to-hand transaction", prosecutor Peter Hussey said.
