A student at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has been jailed for three years after police found 33 wraps of cocaine and 38 wraps of heroin at his student accommodation.

22-year-old Givens Vey-Fitzpatrick, who pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply, had hidden the drugs in a packet of toilet rolls.

Edward Lewis, prosecuting, said that police obtained a warrant to search his accommodation after becoming aware of a local drug dealer known as “ice” operating on Mill Road, and suspecting him to be the defendant.

Lewis described how, before the search could be executed, police saw the Vey-Fitzpatrick near his home, and “there was a chase before he was arrested”.

Police then searched his room, and found the cocaine and heroin, as well as two sim cards and phones “containing material consistent with that of a drug dealer.”

“There were messages to 19 different numbers offering wraps for £10 and a ‘live and local quick service’.”

Speaking to Varsity after the sentencing, one ARU student said that Vey-Fitzpatrick was “quite well known as a dealer”. 

“I’d say it is more widespread than him”, they added.

Shuaib Saeed, defending, said that Vey-Fitzpatrick had got into drug dealing because he had difficulties repaying money he had borrowed.

“He came to Cambridge not to sell drugs, but to start a life for himself”, he continued.

As he sentenced Vey-Fitzpatrick, Judge Jonathan Haworth said that his offences were “open drug dealing”, ordering the drugs and paraphernalia to be forfeited and destroyed.