A DRUG dealer deported to Poland after his jail sentence returned to the UK and twice produced a false drivers' licence when stopped by the police in Wrexham.

But Mold Crown Court heard two versions of how he arrived in the country.

The prosecution said that in his interview Robert Trybulski told how he obtained a false passport and a false driving licence to renter the UK after paying someone to produce them.

He then flew from Warsaw into Birmingham Airport under a false name and returned to Wrexham where he had a partner and child.

The false passport had not been recovered, said prosecutor David Mainstone.

But the defence claimed that after deportation he used his own genuine passport to enter Ireland where he remained for some 12 months.

He then was concerned for the health of his partner and travelled to North Wales via Holyhead where he claimed that no one checked his ID.

Defence barrister Phillip Clemo said he had been instructed that his client had not produced a false passport to enter the UK and there was no evidence that there was a false passport.

Judge Rhys Rowlands halted the sentencing case and said Trybulski, who appeared in court via a live television link from Altcourse Prison in Liverpool, should be produced in court on the next occasion.

The judge told him: "I am very, very concerned at what you have told your defending barrister.

"It seems to be a complete lie compared to what you said in your police interview.

"I don't know but if that is the case, then the court takes a very serious view of someone trying to mislead it in order to affect sentence."

Judge Rowlands said it was a very serious matter for a man being sentenced for attempting to pervert the course of justice to try to mislead the court in mitigation.

"I may ask the police to investigate further with a view to a further more serious charge being brought," he said.

Trybulski, 29, of no fixed abode but who had been living in Wrexham, was further remanded in custody pending sentence on April 17.

He admitted perverting the course of justice, two charges of producing a false Lithuanian driving licence and failing to provide a specimen of breath.

Mr Mainstone said that on February 24 Trybulski, a Polish national, was stopped driving a car in Wrexham and he produced a false driving licence.

He failed to provide a specimen of breath and was dealt with in the false name.

A live scan check later revealed his true identity, police were on the lookout for him and the same officer stopped him eight days later when he again produced the false driving licence and insisted he was the person named upon it.

But in later interview he admitted producing the false driving licence.

The prosecutor said that after being jailed for drugs offences in 2017 he had been deported back to Poland.

But he paid for a false passport and a false driving licence and intended to create a new identity for himself.

Following deportation he returned to the UK illegally under the false name, flying into Birmingham.

Mr Clemo said when his client was living in Ireland under his correct identification, his partner still lived in Wrexham.

She cared for their son but worked shifts and following a health scare he was so concerned that he caught a ferry to Holyhead.

But he had not produced a false passport – no-one had checked his papers at the port. he said.

It was his case that he obtained the false driving licence when he was already in the UK.

The judge said that made no logical sense.

He also said he was sceptical about his claim to be in the UK because of his concern for his partner's health when, with his previous convictions, he had been stopped by police on the first occasion at 3.40am.

"It does have a hollow ring to it," he said.