A POLISH man who admitted a string of drug and driving offences has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

Piotr Golebiowski, aged 33, was sentenced at Dorchester Crown Court after making admission to drug supply offences, possessing offensive weapons and driving matters.

The court was told the first in a series of offence arose after the defendant was stopped following a collision on the A37 near to the Weirs roundabout outside Dorchester on September 13 last year. 

Prosecutor Stuart Ellacott said that officers noticed the smell of cannabis coming from the defendant’s vehicle and inside they found a number of bags of cannabis, weighing a total of around seven grams.

The search also uncovered £830 in cash, an extendable friction lock baton and a small knife.

Mr Ellacott said Golebiowski’s home address in Sherborne Road, Yeovil was later searched and police found 12 pills, which were found to be MDMA, and two small bags of white powder, which were found to contain amphetamine.

He added that analysis of the defendant’s phone also revealed messages that “appeared to relate to the supply of cannabis, amphetamine and MDMA”.

Golebiowski was also stopped on two further occasions in his car in the Yeovil area.

Mr Ellacott said on one occasion he was suspected of driving without insurance and he invited officers back to his home to get the documents and at the property they found a further 226g of cannabis and three bags of amphetamine.

On the third occasion he was stopped Golebiowski was subjected to a road side test and found to be more than twice the legal limit for cannabis.

Jamie Porter, mitigating, said his client had a drug addiction issue and the nature of his offending demonstrated the amateurish nature of his supplying.

He said: “Despite it being a fairly prolific period of offending, it was short lived and it was short lived because he clearly was not very good at it.” 

Judge Peter Johnson sentenced Golebiowski to a total of three years for the offences in September last year and a further six months for the later matters.

He also ordered that Golebiowski be banned from driving for 12 months when he is released from prison.