Packages of heroin and crack cocaine were thrown from the windows of a flat as police carried out a raid, a court heard.

Officers entered the second floor flat at Plewis House in St Alban’s Close, Gillingham, and found Jason Ogbekhilu in the kitchen with his jogging bottoms below his knees.

He was leaning over the sink with his hand through the open window, Maidstone Crown Court was told.

The tenant, Robert Excell, had been keeping watch at the door downstairs and shouted out “gavvers” when the officers arrived on September 14 last year.

Ogbekhilu, 22, and 35-year-old Excell admitted possessing drugs with intent to supply and were each jailed for three years.

Excell was already serving a sentence of 19-and-a-half months for possessing a bladed article, common assault, burglary and attempted burglary.

Prosecutor Martin Yale said an officer was able to record on his body worn camera the packages being thrown from the windows.

They were recovered and several wraps of the class A drugs were inside. The packaging had the DNA of both Excell and Ogbekhilu on it.

Also in the flat was a ”weapon” in the form of ammonia in a Jiffy lemon bottle.

Ogbekhilu, from London, said in a prepared statement he was staying at the flat as he was homeless after being thrown out of his girlfriend’s Gillingham home. He admitted to helping wrap the drugs.

Mr Yale said unemployed Excell had 28 previous court appearances for 55 offences, some for drugs but none for dealing.

Mary Jacobson, defending, said the heroin addict was paid a small amount of money to support his own habit. He had used his time in custody usefully and was drug free for the first time in 18 years.

“He has made massive strides in the 10 months he has been in prison,” she said. “He is on methadone and that will be removed entirely. This has only been possible due to his efforts.

“He has signed up to a crack cocaine workshop and completed a waste management course, which will give him employment on his release.”

Sophie O’Sullivan, for Ogbekhilu, said the conviction would affect his future forever.

Passing sentence, Judge Julian Smith said: “This is street dealing. Mr Excell has made the best of his time in custody.

“There is a real opportunity for someone who has lived with addiction for such an enduring period. It will equip him better for his return to society.”