Decorator sold drugs for 'quick and easy money'

A PAINTER and decorator who lost his job turned to selling drugs as a way of making what he thought would be “quick and easy money”, a court heard.

- JASON EVANS Court and crime reporter [e-mail]

Jack Arran had taken up the decorating trade after leaving prison and was “passionate” about the job until contracts dried up and he lost his employment.

Sending the 29-year-old back to prison, a judge told him he had been “a fool unto yourself”.

Georgia Donohue, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court that on January 31 this year, police in Swansea investigating the operation of a drugs line known as the “Tweedy” line arrested Arran on Odo Street in the Hafod area of the city.

The defendant was searched and was found to be carrying a Nokia phone, a glass jar containing cannabis, £70 in cash, and two Valium tablets.