A panicked drug dealer tried and failed to flush his stash down the toilet after he was caught short by a police raid.

Oliver Kent

Quick-thinking cops immediately smashed a hole in the toilet down-pipe and found a soggy plastic bag containing crack cocaine and heroin.

Further drugs were recovered from a blocked sewer pipe at the property in Findern Green, Bakersfield.

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