'Drug-dealing is bad and I just want to be honest - yeah, I did it'

A DRUG dealer has been jailed and had thousands of pounds in cash seized.

- By TOM MACK

Sam Cox, 27, who lived with his grandmother, confessed all to police who raided her Ashby home.

Cox was arrested as police seized about 6g of cocaine, about a gram of cannabis and evidence of drug dealing.

As he was arrested Cox told the officers: "Drug dealing is bad. I just want to be honest - yeah, I did it."

The police haul included small resealable bags, scales and a phone with details of deals to 27 people going back two years.

They also found £4,599 and €100 in the property.

Cox tried to get some of the cash back, claiming that £3,000 of it was a gift from a relative who had won the National Lottery.