A TEENAGER was found with cocaine just five days after a drugs course as a result of an earlier caution.

Nathan Evans, 19, of Bro Gwilym, Cefn Mawr, Wrexham, appeared at North East Wales Magistrates’ Court today and admitted possessing a small amount of cocaine for his own use in Brook Street in Wrexham, on October 20.

It was found by door staff at a nightclub and the police were called.

District Judge John Maxwell said that the defendant had a caution for precisely the same thing.

He had completed a drugs course five days earlier but it had clearly had no effect whatsoever, he said.

The judge told him that he looked a health young man – different from many who appeared before the court for drugs offences.

They often looked battered and old although they were young enough to be his son or grandson, the judge said.

“That is how you will look in a few years’ time if you continue.”

It was not big, it was bad for him.

“You need to stop otherwise you are on a slippery slope,” he said.

The judge said that Evans was working and fined him £1,200 for possessing the class A drug with £85 costs and a £40 surcharge.

Evans was working, was living with parents, had been on a night out and fell to temptation, the court was told.