A DRUG dealer is back behind bars after he was caught selling cocaine just three months after being released from prison.

Mamoudon Sow jumped from a moving car, which was being followed by police, and ran off, throwing away a bag containing around 40 wraps of cocaine as he fled.

But Bolton Crown Court heard how he was chased and caught and when officers searched him, he had £500 on him as well as two mobile phones.

Colin Buckle, prosecuting, told how 27-year-old Sow came to police attention in the early hours of February 10 on Chorley Road, Horwich.

He was a passenger in an Audi A3 and when officers checked, the found it had been notified as being off the road.

The car headed off, followed by the police, before it slowed down on Claypool Road, Horwich.

“It didn’t come to a complete stop but was driving slowly when the front passenger door opened and a male made off,” said Mr Buckle.

A short distance away, Sow was caught on a field off Laburnum Grove and when police traced his route they recovered the drugs, worth around £1,000.

The court heard that on October 7, 2020, Sow, of Chorley New Road, Bolton, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for heroin dealing and only finally released on November 26 last year, weeks before his latest offence.

Nicholas Ross, defending, said Sow’s case is “very much a lesson in what happens when you become embroiled in drugs”.

He told Recorder Alexandra Simmonds that Sow had begun taking cannabis and cocaine as a teenager at college and began dealing to pay for his habit.

On release from prison he relapsed into drug taking and, in order to fund it and pay off previous drug debts, he started street dealing again.

“He realises the seriousness of the offending and wishes to apologise to the court,” said Mr Ross.

“But for drugs he would have no criminal record. He knows that he has brought about his own downfall.”

After pleading guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to supply, Sow was jailed for four years and two months.

Recorder Simmonds told him: “Changes need to be made to your life if you are to avoid spending increasingly long periods of your future in prison.”