Heroin and crack peddled outside Wigan school

A court heard that Dean Woltman had already been caught with the illegal drugs in another incident across town earlier in the year when police pounced near to the Deanery High.

Bolton Crown Court was told that officers had received a tip-off that substance misusers were loitering in a bus shelter on Frog Lane on Monday, June 29.

A blue Ford Focus was observed by police approaching the drug users before turning off onto nearby Spring Gardens.

They followed the car and found 24-year-old Woltman at the wheel.

After a search he was found to have £415 on him plus heroin and crack cocaine which he had secreted down the back of his pants.

This was not the first time that Woltman, who lives in Herburn Road, Tuebrook, had been arrested for drug dealing in Wigan town centre.

Prosecutors told the court that on March 25, police were called following a report of drug activity in an alleyway of Acton Street, Swinley, where they saw a man run from a car into a small courtyard behind houses at the top of the street.

He was found hiding in a corner he had buried 50 wraps of heroin and 53 wraps of crack cocaine under a pile of leaves. Together they were said to have a street value of £1,030. Woltman will be sentenced on September 4.