A promising footballer from Dudley has been jailed for drug dealing.

Malachi Lewis, 19, was spotted by plain clothes police approaching a large gang in the Adamstown area of Cardiff and offering them drugs on August 29

Malachi, who was on an illegally modified electric bike and wearing a black balaclava, was followed and stopped.

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Police found he was carrying more than £400 as well as a Nokia 'burner' phone that rang repeatedly while he was being questioned.

The phone was later examined and contained messages which is understood that the defendant had both cocaine and heroin ready to supply to drug users in the area.

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