A drugs runner was involved in a high speed car chase after drugs were thrown over a wall into a prison.

Hove Crown Court was told Scott Finn then sped off, hitting hitting prison officers who tried to block his escape.

But he was never prosecuted for the offence and later agreed to give evidence against members of a Worthing drugs ring in return for a lighter sentence.

DC Anthony Taylor said Finn was not prosecuted for the incident at Elm Lea prison in Kent because it was considered to be part of a wider conspiracy by the gang to supply drugs.

Robert Standen and Rachel Morgan were also charged with conspiracy to supply after cocaine was found at Morgan's home.

DC Taylor said Standen told police the drugs were his and he had hidden them in the house without Morgan knowing.

It is alleged the drugs ring was run by Jordan Moore from his cell at Lewes prison where he issued orders for them to be distributed and debts to be collected.

Moore is said to have also ordered a violent attack on David James who was slashed with a Stanley knife in December 2007.

DC Taylor said when Standen was interviewed he said he told associate Jonathan Reeve that David James had annoyed him and asked Reeve to “give him a slap” next time he saw him.

However, that section of the interview was missing from a transcript of the interview later given to lawyers in the case.

David Lynn, defending Moore, asked: “How does it arise that this got left out?

“Were you surprised to discover the version given to the prosecution appeared to have been edited by a typist.”

DC Taylor replied: “Yes, I was gobsmacked.”

Jordan Moore, 26, formerly of Cotswold Road, Durrington, denies making threats to kill David James.

He along with Reeve, 28, of Jarvis Road, Arundel, Sam Hall, 23, of DuCane Road, London and Rachel Morgan, 40, of St Richards Close, Goring, deny grievous bodily harm.

Reeve denies assault causing actual bodily harm, making threats to kill and blackmail.

Standen, 23, of Canberra Road, Worthing, denies having an explosive substance, allegedly fireworks which had been modified or dismantled.

Reeve, Standen, and Carrie-Anne McGee, 24, of Cotswold Road, Worthing, deny conspiracy to supply cocaine.

Morgan denies possessing cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamine with intent to supply.

McGee and Moore's mother Maxine Moore, 55, of Cheviot Road, Worthing, both deny possessing criminal property.

It is alleged they both knew or suspected that money given to them by Jordan Moore was from the proceeds of drug dealing.

The trial continues.