A former drug dealer who went on the run after supplying drugs to an undercover police officer in the city six years ago has been jailed.

Kyran Downer, 33, who was formerly known as "gold tooth" supplied crack cocaine and heroin to a covert officer as part of Operation Granary - a crackdown targeting county lines networks dealing class A drugs in Norwich.

Norwich Crown Court heard Downer had supplied the officer, known as Tommo, two wraps of crack cocaine on February 22 2018 in the Unthank Road area of the city.

Norwich Crown CourtNorwich Crown Court (Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest) Downer also supplied the same covert officer heroin and crack cocaine while he was operating in the city on March 6 2018.

Danielle Byford, prosecuting, said Downer was later arrested for drug supply after he was found not wearing a seat belt in a car in 2019.

Downer, who was picked out by Tommo in an identification parade, was bailed but "remained at large" until May this year after he failed to surrender to custody.

Downer, from London, appeared in court via videolink from Norwich Prison having admitted four counts of supplying class A drugs.

Kyran DownerKyran Downer (Image: Norfolk Constabulary) He also admitted separate offences of dangerous driving and drink driving - committed in London in September 2019 - as well as an offence of failing to surrender to police custody.

Jailing Downer for a total of 50 months, Judge David Pugh said the delay in the defendant being sentenced was "of your own making".

Downer was also disqualified from driving for a total of 42 months.

Kimberley Aiken, mitigating, said Downer was now a "very different person to the one who got into trouble as a juvenile" and that it was a case of "his past coming back to haunt him".

She said Downer accepts he was a drug user who became a dealer at the time of the offending due to a debt he had accrued but had since "got himself drug-free".