When police in Swansea picked up a restaurant worker wanted by colleagues in London they found he was involved in dealing heroin, cocaine and cannabis, a court has heard.
Officers tracked Emanuel Ollivierre down to a bedsit in the Uplands area of the city and found he had a stash of Class A drugs, weighing scales, and a phone full of incriminating text messages. The defendant has a previous conviction for drug dealing from Cambridgeshire, and sending the 24-year-old back to prison the judge told him drugs was a "mug's game - unless you want to spend your life inside". Swansea Crown Court was told that before the sentencing hearing the defendant had asked his advocate to try to contact his mother for him, as his attempts to call her from prison had failed - but it emerged his mum had recently passed away.
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