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A man has been jailed for five years after being found with 11-wraps of crack cocaine between his buttocks during a police search in Bookham .

Olatokunbo Afolabi was found with his trousers around his thighs while driving by two police officers at about 11.30pm on Wednesday, March 1 last year.

Afolabi was taken to a police station where drugs were found both during a strip search and two days later in his stools.

The 35-year-old was found guilty of possession of class A drugs with intent to supply following a trial at Guildford Crown Court.

The street value of the crack cocaine and cocaine found was estimated to be nearly £5,000.

Afolabi accepted possessing the drugs according to prosecutor Edward Culver but had pleaded not guilty to two counts of supplying the drugs, which he claimed were for personal use.

The jury found him not guilty of the second intent to supply charge.

Afolabi, of Randall Road, Romford was found by police in his black Ford Focus alongside Jasmine Phillips and Lennox Blacket in Edenside Road.

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His car was stopped after officers noticed him "ducking down" while police passed.

During the trial one of the officers who arrested Afolabi said that he was “initially calm” but quickly became “aggressive and confrontational”.

Blacket did not allow officers entry into the rear passenger door of the car during the search and tried to get away from the car but was chased down an alley way and back to the scene by an officer while a second officer stayed with Afolabi and Phillips at the car.

Blacket had previously pleaded guilty with to the intent to supply class A drugs while Phillips pleaded guilty to possession of class B drugs.

When Afolabi was searched 21.8 grams of crack cocaine, of 88 per cent purity, and a 98 mg packet of cocaine were discovered.

Before the trial had begun, judge Alexia Durran offered Afolabi a chance to chance his plea to guilty stating that between his buttocks “seems a funny place to keep it [the drugs] if it was for personal use”.

Afolabi's defence lawyer Josh Kerne had also made an application the court a week before the trial begun in an attempt to have the charges dismissed but this was rejected.

Afolabi was sentenced to five years imprisonment by Judge Durran and ordered to pay a surcharge of £170.

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