A nervous father-of-two caught dealing in drugs at his home has avoided a jail sentence.

Police raided a flat in Dover where Jordan Gill lives and discovered cannabis – including some stashed in a tumble drier.

The 25-year-old, of Shooters Hill, who admitted possessing the drugs intending to sell them, could have faced going to prison for up to three years.

But Canterbury Crown Court heard how Gill, who has been smoking cannabis since he was 12, has been working one day a week at a charity shop in the town.

His barrister, Paul Hogben said Gill had arrived at court “trembling with fear and shaking like a leaf” fearing he would be jailed.

He said he began dealing for a month before the police raid in July last year to fund his own habit.

Mr Hogben said Gill was suffering from ADHD and had “self-medicated” by using the illegal drugs.

Recorder Bruce Houlder QC told him that selling cannabis was “laying a path for other people to wreck their lives”.

After hearing how he was now motivated to turn around his life, the judge gave him an 18-month community order and told him he had to do 150 hours of unpaid work.

The judge also ordered the drugs, with a street value of up to £1,700 be destroyed, and £209 found in the flat be confiscated.

But after a request from Mr Hogben, the judge ruled the destruction of two mobile phones, seized by officers, be delayed until photographs of Gill’s children were downloaded.