A man has been warned he faces a jail sentence after admitting involvement in the supply of crack cocaine on the streets of Norwich. 

Kirk Smith, 30, of Thorpe Road, pleaded guilty at Norwich Crown Court to being concerned in the supply of class A drugs. 

Recorder John Brooke-Smith ordered a pre-sentence report but told Smith: “That will give the court more details but it all points to an immediate custodial sentence.

"I don’t want you to be under any misapprehension about that.”   

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The court was told Smith had been found in possession of a mobile phone with messages relating to drug dealing which the police categorised as involvement with county lines.  

But Oliver Haswell, mitigating, said he was a drug addict and that the phone was his own for communication with his family rather than a burner handset solely linked to county lines dealing.

“He is a man in the grip of a long-standing addiction effectively selling on the side as many addicts do,” he added. 

He will be sentenced on May 17.