A drug dealer was paid to sell cannabis for £90 a day while homeless, a court has heard.

Frantisek More, 31, was spotted by a plainclothes police officer in an unmarked car on Ramsbottom Road on November 11, 2022.

Bolton Crown Court heard how he had been wearing a black hooded top and appeared to be passing something to another man.

Prosecutor Ellie Watson said: “Officers approached the defendant and asked what he was doing, he responded that he was selling bud.”

More was searched and turned out that to have been carrying 11 snap bags of cannabis with around £110 in cash.

The case was heard at Bolton Crown CourtThe case was heard at Bolton Crown Court (Image: Newsquest)

Ms Watson told the court that More said he was homeless but denied that he had been forced to sell drugs.

Instead he said that he had been paid £90 a day to deal them.

More, who has nine previous convictions for 21 offences all of them committed after he was caught with the drugs, confessed to possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply.

Tanya Elahi, defending, said that More, who looked on via video link from a Home Office detention centre, deserved credit for his guilty plea.

She said: “The defendant is remorseful, he is ashamed of his actions, he did assist the police, he told them everything he knew about the operation.”

Ms Elahi told the court that More, of no fixed abode, had become homeless during the Covid pandemic and that was when his offending had begun.

But since his arrest, More had signed a letter to be voluntarily deported to the Czech Republic.

Ms Elahi said: “He wants to go home, he wants to work, he wants to live a new life.”

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Judge Jon Close accepted that More’s crimes had been “motivated by drug use” and that he had earned credit for pleading guilty.

But speaking directly to the defendant, he reminded him of his role in the drug trade.

Judge Close said: “You were seen by police in broad daylight involved in the supply of drugs at street level.”

He sentenced jailed More for six months and ordered that the drugs and money caught on him be seized.