A MAN has been fined for possession of crack cocaine found in a Kinder Surprise Egg.

Jamil Ahmed, 31, who at the time of the offence was living in his car parked on Cecilia Street, Bolton, was arrested by police after they discovered 13 snap bags of cannabis containing a total of half a gram of the drug and the cocaine in the plastic egg.

Jamil pleaded guilty to the offences, which he said was drugs use for his own consumption.

Defending Neil Ronan said that Ahmed had since returned to be with his family and had got a job as a labourer to help turn his life around.”

He was fined £150 for possession of the Class A drug and forfeiture and destruction of it and the cannabis.