Police who searched a car in a car park at the Fiveways roundabout in west Suffolk found a brick-sized package containing nearly 1kg of high purity cocaine, a court has heard.
The package containing the drug was found in a footwell of a Nissan Qashqai which was parked in the McDonald’s car park near the roundabout at Barton Mills near Mildenhall, Ipswich Crown Court was told.
Matthew Morgan, prosecuting, said the cocaine had a street value of £60,000 to £100,000 and a wholesale value of £30,000.
Before the court was Steven Bowley, 51, of Elm Road, Thetford, who admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply on April 19 this year.
Jailing Bowley for four years and four months, Recorder Emma Nash told him: “Courts up and down the country deal day in and day out with the misery caused by the class A drug trade.”
"You, for reasons that are completely unclear to me you decided to involve yourself in that miserable trade by moving these drugs from one place to another," she added.
The court heard that Bowley was sitting in the front passenger seat of the car and told officers that what they were looking for was under the seat.
Matthew Sorel-Cameron, for Bowley, said his first child had died of cot death and his wife had died shortly before his arrest.
He said he had committed the offence out of a “self-destructive devil may care attitude” following his wife’s death.
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