Cyclist’s £206,700 drug stash

A CYCLIST stopped by police investigating burglaries has been jailed for possessing drugs and indecent images of children.

Michael Shaw (46) was stopped by police in Honeywell Lane, Hathershaw in the early hours of September 6, 2014.

Shaw, of Copsterhill Road, Hathershaw, was carrying tools that could be used a break-in and couldn’t say where he had been. He was arrested.

Officers found amphetamines with a street value of at least £206,700 at his home. A number of electronic devices were at the house wee found to contain indecent images of children.

Shaw pleased guilty to intent to supply class B drugs and possession of indecent images. he was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to four years and two months in prison and ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

Det Con Michelle Lomax said: “The quantity of amphetamines we found at the address was very significant; there is no doubt he had every intention of aiding in their distribution.”