A man found with a Samurai sword during a drugs raid by police in Maidstone has been jailed for more than three years.

Ian Bigg was sat on a sofa next to the weapon when officers searched a property on Wallis Avenue in March.

The 39 year-old admitted possessing and intending to supply class A drugs.

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