A teenager will spend the next five years behind bars after being sentenced for possession of heroin with intent to supply.

Sean Daniel Fitzpatrick, aged 18, of Central Promenade, Douglas, was sentenced by Deemster Graeme Cook on Wednesday at the Court of General Gaol Delivery.

We have previously reported that on May 6, at 7.21am the police’s drug and organised crime unit carried out a search warrant on Fitzpatrick’s flat.

That search by officers uncovered a ’significant amount’ of the Class A drug diamorphine, namely heroin. It was found in a coffee jar inside a camouflaged pouch in 14 wraps.

Tests proved it to be 42.1g of heroin, giving it a street value of between £5,200 and £10,252.

Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty at his first appearance in the courts, when he appeared before magistrates in May.

Defence advocate Louise Cooil said that while Fitzpatrick is 18, he lacks maturity and has been involved in a peer group that has been ’perhaps an extremely bad influence’.

She said that he had told her he had been looking for work since the start of 2020 but that previous convictions had made this difficult.

’If you Google my name, I’m never going to get a job,’ he told her.

This had left Fitzpatrick with the mindset that his involvement with drugs was the only way to support himself.

Ms Cooil said this was a ’horrible mindset for an 18-year-old to be in’.

Deemster Cook said that heroin is a ’disgusting drug’.

He added: ’What on earth a man of 18 is becoming involved in heroin for, it beggars belief.’

Deemster Cook gave credit to Fitzpatrick for his guilty plea and to his age and sentenced him to five years in prison.