A man was caught with £50,000 of cocaine at his house - nine days after narrowly avoiding jail for heroin possession, a court heard.
Jonathan Brown, of Highfield in King's Lynn, was given an 18-month suspended sentence on February 3 for possession of heroin with intent to supply.
But yesterday a Norwich Crown Court sentencing hearing heard that on February 12 police found over a kilogram of cocaine wraps at his home.
Recorder John Gallagher sentenced Brown, 48, to three years' jail for possession of cocaine with intent to supply - a charge he admitted.
Mr Gallagher also activated the previous suspended sentence for the heroin offence, taking the total jail sentence to four-and-a-half years.
The court heard there was some concern that Brown was vulnerable because he suffered from symptoms of autism.
Steve Webster, an NHS assistant psychologist at HM Prison Wayland, told the court he had given Brown an autism screening test, and while he could not confirm he was autistic, he said he did fall 'on the autism spectrum'.
Mr Webster said: 'I couldn't give a full diagnosis.'
Mr Gallagher said this had influenced the offences.
He said: 'It seems to me that you were under pressure to commit the offence, and because of your personality you were more easily put upon to commit this offence.
'I'm prepared to accept that to an extent you were exploited.'
But Mr Gallagher said he had to take into account the suspended sentence Brown had received a matter of days he was arrested for the possession of cocaine.
The court was told Brown had £300 in cash on him when he was stopped and searched at St Nicholas Retail Park in King's Lynn on February 12.
He was found in possession of a wrap of what was believed to be cocaine, and arrested on suspicion of possession of a class A drug with intent to supply.
This led police to search a property on Highfield where a quantity of further wraps of drugs were discovered, which were estimated to be worth £50,000.
Mr Gallagher also made an order for the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs.
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