A TEENAGER has been charged with supplying and offering to supply a class A drug following a newspaper sting.

Unemployed Harry Williams, 19, of Chancellor Avenue, Chelmsford, was charged following after the offences were alleged to have taken place Monday, July 21.

In an expose by a national newspaper, Williams was caught on camera boasting how he made the drug dimethyltryptamine – DMT – using bark from trees in the Amazon.

He has been released on conditional bail until his appearance at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Wednesday, November 26.