A Greenwich drug dealer caught with Class A drugs up his backside at the scene of a stabbing could be spared jail - after a judge told him he wouldn't "jeopardise someone's future unnecessarily".

Judge Jason Taylor QC told Kehinde Olayiwola, 22, he would delay his sentencing until the new year to give him a chance to start university.

Olayiwola, of Roan Street, Greenwich, was arrested in Swindon, Wiltshire, because he was acting suspiciously close to the scene of a stabbing in the early hours of June 5 last year.

When he was strip-searched police found 73 wraps of crack cocaine, five of heroin and a small amount of cannabis for his own use in his anus.

But should the dealer stay out of trouble, keep off cannabis and remain committed to his engineering course he may be spared jail.

Hannah Squire, prosecuting, told the town's crown court he had three mobile phones - his own iPhone and the other two "cheap throwaway phones; burner phones".

She said: "He was arrested. No drugs were found on the street. He was taken to the police station and was concealing them in his bottom."

Data from the phones showed Olayiwola sent bulk messages to 174 different numbers hours earlier advertising drugs for sale.

Olayiwola pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing drugs with intent to supply and one of simple possession.

Mike Pulsford, defending, said his client has an offer to start an engineering course at De Montfort University in Leicester later this month.

He asked the court to put off passing sentence so his client could prove he had changed his ways and was making progress at university.

The judge deferred sentence until early next year. He said: "You were acting under instructions and against a background of intimidation.

"The police do not necessarily accept that. They have searched to see if any reports were made by your family but they have not been able to find any.

"You have convictions for simple possession, but nothing more. It seems to me that this is a significant role.

"You were playing an operational function, have some awareness of the scale of the operation and benefited financially. In mitigation I can take into account pressure.

"The last thing a court wants to do is jeopardise someone's future unnecessarily.

"You are being given an opportunity today."