AN ALLEGED drug dealer was found with £1,000 cash on him weeks before his home was raided, a jury was told.

Mark Haywood, 37, told police the money was part of an inheritance which he planned to spend on a holiday.

When his home was later searched, police found heroin, weighing scales, more cash, foil and cellophane wraps. Haywood accepted the drugs belonged to him, but said he had no intention of dealing, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Haywood, of Burnley Road, Colne, denies possessing heroin with intent to supply. He has admitted obstructing a police officer. Lyn Whaites, prosecuting, said when police went to the defendant's home they discovered more heroin and also £270 in cash as well as the scales, foil, cellophane and scissors.

Haywood was taken to the police station, accepted the heroin was his but said he had had no intention of supplying.

The defendant had been stopped by police a few weeks earlier in July when he had been in a car and the £1,000 had been found on him.

When asked about it, he told police it was inheritance money.

(Proceeding)