Two men will be sentenced today after the death of a man whose body was hidden under a tarpaulin when he overdosed on heroin.

Drug addict Ben Phillips was yesterday convicted of perverting the course of justice, having previously admitted the manslaughter of 34-year-old Jed Little by gross negligence.

Phillips, of Luckhurst Lane, Smarden, will be sentenced with John Allen, 58, of Beecholme Drive, Kennington, who earlier admitted the perverting charge.

Maidstone Crown Court heard Phillips "cooked up" the drug in a bedroom at his Ashford home and passed it to Jed to inject.

After the fatal dose, Phillips, 33, did not call for an ambulance but with the help of Allen moved the body into the garden and covered it over.

Ian Hope, prosecuting, said Phillips had been living with Allen's daughter Maria in St Theresa's Close.

In February last year she moved in with Robert Brewin in Orion Way, Willesbrough. All were drug users.

Police at the scene in St Theresa's Close, Ashford

On March 7, Phillips visited the couple and told Miss Allen: "Jed's dead."

Police went to the house and arrested Phillips over an incident with Miss Allen. He had in his possession crack cocaine and heroin.

Mr Brewin and Miss Allen went to St Theresa's Close and found the bedroom in disarray and blood on the mattress.

John Allen was asleep at the rear of the house. The couple looked in the garden and discovered the body under the tarpaulin.

They left and called the police.

Mr Hope said a post mortem examination revealed Jed, also known as Jed Turner, of Hythe Road, Ashford, choked to death after overdosing on heroin.

Phillips at first claimed he knew nothing about the death. He later admitted cooking up the drug and handing it in a syringe to Jed.