A CLASS A drug has been ordered to be destroyed after it was found in the possession of a Hereford man.

Charlie Beament entered a guilty plea to one count of possessing a controlled class A drug when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford in July.

The court heard from Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor Camilla Toscano that the 29-year-old had been caught in possession of a quantity of controlled class A drug cocaine in Hereford on January 6 last year.

Beament, who is of Shelwick, Hereford, was handed a £120 fine following the offence, with magistrates saying they took his guilty plea into account.

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Beament also admitted causing criminal damage to a carpet in Hereford’s Blackfriars Street Premier Inn. He was fined £40 for this.

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 but no victim surcharge was ordered.