TWO men who supplied heroin to an undercover police officer in Weymouth town centre have become the latest to be jailed following a major anti-drug operation in the resort.

Nicholas Worthy was sent to prison for 39 months after admitting 11 charges of supplying heroin and one charge of possessing the drug, while Ramon Aaron Longbottom was sentenced to two years in jail for six offences of supplying heroin.

Last week James Clinton Walmsley became the first of 38 people caught in Dorset Police’s Operation Dismantle to be jailed, as he was sent to prison for two years for supplying heroin.

Elaine Jones, prosecuting, told Dorchester Crown Court that Worthy, 36, met a police officer who was acting undercover as part of a Dorset Police operation called Acro Star – the forerunner to Operation Dismantle – on last November.

Ms Jones said Worthy, of Hanover Road, Weymouth, supplied the police operative with 0.370grams of heroin in exchange for £25.

She said over the next five weeks the undercover officer met Worthy a further 10 times in Weymouth to be supplied with heroin after making contact over the phone, with the deals ranging from £25 to £100.

Worthy was then arrested on February 8, as officers made a series of arrests across the Weymouth area and found to have 13 wraps of heroin on him.

Rachel Spearing, mitigating for Worthy, said: “He explained to the test purchase officers that he used to supply 10 wraps and after supplying those would have three left over for himself.”

Ms Jones said Longbottom, 31, of no fixed abode, also supplied an undercover officer on six occasions between August 14 and September 24, mainly £10 deals for the officer, after meeting him in Weymouth town centre.

He was arrested on February 9.

Tim Shorter, mitigating, said Longbottom was a long term heroin user and at ‘the very lowest level of the supply chain’.