POLICE have released the custody image of a county lines drug dealer who was found in a Basingstoke drug den with 42 wraps of heroin stuffed up his bottom.

Kaim Mpenga was handed a three year prison sentence at Winchester Crown Court on Friday (August 6) for his 'management' role in a drug network after being found in possession of the heroin, £855 in cash and two mobile phones.

The court heard how police raided a flat on Chequers Road on June 26 2020, and found Mpenga there, with the drugs "between his buttocks".

The 24-year-old is already serving a 32-month custodial term for a previous drug offence in Oxford in January 2019.

Isabel Delamere, prosecuting, said: “It’s the crown’s case that this defendant is county lines.

“He is not from these areas, he is from London, and the Crown would say that this is a man who has operated in two different areas. He is not a lead role, but he definitely has an operational management function within a chain and an awareness of the scale of the operation.”

However, in mitigation, Chloe Birch, defending, disputed this, claiming that the previous offence was “completely separate” with the second offence taking place “quite a considerable amount of time” after the first.

Recorder Roger Harris 'took into account' that Mpenga may have received a concurrent sentence had the two offences been considered at the same time.

He handed him three years in prison, as well as ordering forfeiture of the drugs, money and phones, and destruction of the drugs and phones.