A MAN who supplied an undercover police officer with hard drugs, was jailed for two and a half years.

Andrew Sawyer, pictured, used his mobile phone to set up the deal and then drove to Shirley where the officer gave him £20.

Sawyer returned within a few minutes with heroin and crack cocaine and he took a small quantity of the latter for his own use.

Sawyer was later involved in a fracas at a house in the inner-city area where he and two other men, Paul Ralph and Antonio Rodrigues, had gone to buy tobacco or cannabis. A scuffle ensued.

Sawyer, 34, of Lower Brownhill Road, admitted supplying drugs and affray, and was jailed for a total of 27 months. Paul Ralph, 44, of Winn Road, and Rodrigues, 26, of Northam Road, who also admitted affray, both received six month suspended sentence coupled with 18 months supervision.