A KIDDERMINSTER drug dealer gave himself up to police because he wanted to go to jail to save his life, a court heard.

Heroin addict Chris White could see himself in "a decline leading to an early death," Worcester Crown Court was told.

He gave himself up to police on foot patrol in Offmore Road, Kidderminster, on March 27, and told them he was a drug dealer.

The 31-year-old pleaded guilty to possession of four wraps of cocaine and two of heroin with intent to supply.

White, of Olympian Court, Kidderminster, told police he was selling between £50 and £200 worth of the drugs each day to pay for his own heroin addiction and the only way he could stop was by getting himself sent to jail, Peter Fortune, defending, told the court.

"It might seem a curious way to rehabilitation but he saw the opportunity," Mr Fortune said. "He could see the life he was leading was going to be a further spiral of decline leading to an early death."

White, he said, wanted to spend long enough in prison to get himself clean and on his release he planned to move away to live near his father's family and go back into the building trade.

"He will not be subject to the temptations in the lifestyle he has drifted into in Kidderminster over the last seven or eight years," Mr Fortune said.

Judge Nicolas Cartwright said White, who had no previous convictions, had volunteered that he had been committing a criminal offence.

He was given a total sentence of two years and will serve half of it in prison before being released on licence.