CLASS A drugs have been ordered to be destroyed after they were found in the possession of a Hereford man.

Marley Williams entered a guilty plea to one count of possessing a controlled class A drug when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford in May.

The court heard from Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor Camila Toscano that the 25-year-old had been caught in possession of a quantity of controlled class A drug cocaine in Hereford on September 30 last year.

Williams, who is of the Hawthorns, Hereford, was handed a conditional discharge following the offence, with magistrates saying they had taken his guilty plea to the charge into account when deciding on the penalty.

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The cocaine was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed under section 27 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

He was ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £26 victim surcharge.

He must make the full payment to the court by June 29.