An 18-year-old has been locked up for two years and eight months after a drugs raid on a home in Gravesend.

Raymond Olabode, of Anvil Terrace, Dartford, was arrested in September after police went to a property in Poplar Avenue.

Crack cocaine, heroin and associated drug equipment were seized and Olabode alongside Chelsea Richardson, 19, of no fixed address, were charged with possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

The pair were also charged with false imprisonment as they were suspected of ‘cuckooing’ the property – the practice of using the home of a vulnerable person as a base for supplying illegal substances.

Both denied that charge and it will lie on file.

The pair admitted dealing heroin and supplying crack cocaine and were sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court last Thursday.

Olabode was given 32 months in a youth offenders institute while Richardson got two years youth custody suspended for 18 months and will have to carry out 250 hours of community service and 25 days of rehabilitation.

A third man, aged 19, arrested at the time has been released without charge.