A BMW driver caught with crack cocaine in his pants has complained about being jailed.

Drug dealer Fred Obidi was jailed for two and a half years after being stopped in Brighton’s Lewes Road with 90 wraps of class A drugs.

Obidi, 24, of Brisbane Street, Southwark, London, was arrested on on March 7 at 10.30am after he was seen acting suspiciously while driving the BMW.

Obidi pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Lewes Crown Court on April 25 to serve two and a half years in custody - but he tried to appeal for a shorter sentence at the Court of Appeal.

In his written ruling Mr Justice Lavender said: “He was driving a car and was stopped by the police. The car was found to contain four wraps of drugs, a set of scales and two mobile phones. More drugs were found on the appellant’s person in two tubs: one in his jumper and one in his underwear. There were 90 wraps in total, some containing heroin and some containing crack cocaine.”

“He was selling these drugs on his own account in an attempt to raise money to pay off his drug debt. He denied being part of a drugs ring. He did not claim to have been subject to any pressure, coercion or intimidation.

“He said that he had lost his job as a delivery driver, that he became depressed (although there was no evidence that he was diagnosed with depression), that he had tried to lift his mood by smoking crack cocaine, and had thereby acquired the drug debt which he had wanted to pay off by selling drugs himself.”

Appeal court judges ruled that they would have given Obidi four years in prison so they dismissed his appeal.