An Epsom drug dealer was been jailed after he tried to run away from police after hurling a sock full of cocaine into a nearby garden.

Ricardo McPherson was in a car driving through Tadworth when they were stopped by Surrey Police on July 1.

They told police they were heading to the pub, but when stopped 25 minutes later in Burge Heath and asked individually, they couldn't get their story straight as to why they hadn't gone to the pub.

McPhearson, 32, from High Street in Epsom, saw that police were going to search him, so threw a sock full of drugs into a nearby garden and started to run.

He ran up Brighton Road tailed by officers, jumped through a number of bushes, but he couldn't keep up the pace and was eventually caught by police.

The sock thrown by McPhearson was found to have 19 wraps of cocaine inside.

McPhearson guilty to possession with intent to supply drugs and was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on August 11 to five years and six months in prison.

The investigation was part of Operation Viking, a dedicated team at Surrey Police working since before Christmas to crackdown on cross-border drug dealers.