A DRUG dealer turned in by his own father has been sent to Crown Court to be sentenced.

Alistair Costley-White, of High Street, Porton pleaded guilty to possession and intent to supply a class B drug in Salisbury Magistrate's Court on Friday.

Prosecuting, Kate Prince said police received a phone call on December 27 from Costley-White's father.

He told police he had followed his son and witnessed an exchange which he believed to be a drug deal, and that he was concerned about his son's use of cannabis.

Officers arrived at the house and found the 24-year-old in his bedroom, where he admitted to having cannabis.

A search of the room found two plastic ice-cream tubs full of cannabis, a set of digital scales on the bed and £2,000 cash in his bedside cabinet.

Costley-White told police the cannabis, totalling about 560g, with a street value of £5,000, was for personal use.

But when police seized his phone they found messages dating to December 2015 suggesting Costley-White had been supplying drugs to at least 14 individuals.

Defending, Nick Redhead said Costley-White was a "promising young man whose life has been blighted by the use of cannabis".

He said Costley-White had dropped out of Oxford Brookes University before his final year exams due to cannabis use and he then "got into the habit of dealing drugs" in "very small deals on a very small scale".

Magistrate Debbie Slater said the court's powers of sentencing were not sufficient in this case.

Costley-White will be sent to Salisbury Crown Court for sentencing.