A drug dealer tried to jump out of the dock to escape from court after he was found with crack cocaine in his underwear. Richard Hughes was being remanded into custody by a judge when he attempted to leap to his freedom.

He was unable to make it of the court building and was instead detained by police. The drug dealer was in court after he was found with dozens of wraps of cocaine months prior.

In another incident, Hughes was found with some more crack inside his boxers. Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Thursday (September 4), that plain clothes police spotted a group of drug users in the area of Oakdale Road and Shakespeare Road in Wallasey, Wirral, on February 8 last year.

Sarah Egan, prosecuting, described how, when detained, officers noted Hughes' phone to be "ringing constantly",

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