Man's 'secret life' unravelled after door staff searched him at a bar

A man who was living a 'secret life' was caught out after door staff searched him at a bar, a court heard.

Kai Birkett was searched by security at the Reef bar in Warrington on a night out on March 13 last year. They found six bags of white powder, later identified to be cocaine with a street value of up to £300, in the front pocket of his jeans, the Liverpool Echo reports.

After the now 23-year-old was arrested, police then searched his home the next day. They found more cocaine, £500 in cash, a set of scales with cocaine residue on and three graft phones, Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday (October 3).

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Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, told the court how in total, around 4.28g of the class A drug, with a street value of up to £330, was found in Birkett's possession. The mobile phones had evidence of drug-related messages on them when examined by the police.

Birkett answered 'no comment' to every question in interview. Paul Wood, defending, said the case had taken a while to get to court but acknowledged 'the defendant hasn't helped that because he did not cooperate with the police'.

Mr Wood told the court at the time of the offence his client had a 'lack of maturity' and was a cocaine addict who dealt the drug to 'feed his habit'. He had been using the drug since he was 18 and in March last year was dealing to fund his £300 a week habit.

Birkett had also fallen into debt following the theft of a number of work tools. Mr Wood said his client was 'living a secret life'. He told the court: "On the face he was a positive member of society and then got the habit and went to illegal