A DRUG dealer jailed for peddling drugs in Oxford says he has the ‘talent’ and ambition to make it big in the music industry on his release.

Prolific dealer Brandon Morris, of Crescent Road, Luton, was jailed at Oxford Crown Court for a third-strike offence of two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs – crack cocaine and heroin.

The 28-year old had already been convicted of similar matters in 2013 and again in 2014, meaning a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years had be imposed.

During his mitigation at the hearing defence barrister Sumita Mahtab-Shaikh said that her client claimed he had big dreams to launch a music career when he gets out of jail.

She said: “His ambition is to make music and that is where he says his future is. He wants to devote his time and energy to making music, he has that talent.”

At the hearing on Thursday prosecutor Jonathan Sank said that the offences arose out of an incident on Cowley Road where Morris was seen driving a rented Audi on January 20.

He was chased and during the pursuit he threw two objects out of the car window.

After he was eventually captured and arrested the items were recovered and found to contain 220 deal bags of crack cocaine and 143 deal bags of heroin.

The total street value of the drugs was some £3,630.

Despite his Luton address, the court heard, the case was not identified by the Crown Prosecution Service as a ‘county-lines’ offence.

In mitigation defence barrister Sumita Mahtab-Shaikh pointed to his lofty ambition to crack the music industry and also asked for a discount in light of his early guilty plea for the two offences.

Sentencing, Judge Zoe Smith said that she had to impose the mandatory minimum but would apply a discount of 20 per cent for the early admission of guilty.

Morris was jailed for five years and eight months and must pay a victim surcharge.