A STUDENT who was drug dealing was caught when a friend called police to say he had been robbed.

The man had gone to supply drugs to two people who had robbed him of his drugs and cash.

Flintshire magistrates' court was told that the police were suspicious and the story began to unravel.

Benjamin James Vickers, 18, of Manor Lodge, Moor Lane in Lower Kinnerton, admitted supplying cannabis, a class B drug between May and July of this year.

He received a three month youth custody sentence, suspended for 12 months.

Vickers was also ordered to carry out 150 hours unpaid work and pay £60 costs.

Prosecutor Wyn Jones told the court the defendant had planned to sell drugs to a couple of lads from Chester. But he was robbed of his drugs and his money.

He had been with two others and one of them reported the robbery.

Police were suspicious and the truth came out, he explained.

Three were arrested and one of them, a youth, was due to be dealt with at the youth court.

Interviewed, Vickers admitted supplying cannabis for about six weeks.

It started off by supplying to his friends, then to others.

He was in the process of supplying cannabis for £240 to two men when he was robbed of his drugs and cash.

Defending solicitor Annette Marigold said Vickers had no previous convictions.

He had volunteered his stash of cannabis to police and it had been done to fund his own habit. Vickers was full of remorse and had not realised what he was getting involved in.