A DRUG dealer has been jailed for five years after police found a stun gun disguised as a torch at his Pensnett home.

During the raid on Stefan Gregg's Haywharf Road home, officers also found cannabis, worth £1,200, which was bagged up and ready for distribution and recovered a set of Nunchuck and a BB gun - weapons that fitted the pattern of a man "seeking to protect himself," according to Judge Barry Berlin.

Mark Phillips, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Crown Court that police also found an advert placed by 27-year-old Gregg on a mobile telephone for "high grade Californian Orange cannabis" - an advert aimed at a handful of customers.

He added: "The dealing was being run as a profitable business but it did not involve a very wide group of people."

Mr Phillips said Gregg's partner, 36-year-old Michelle Hirst was helping to wrap up the street deals but he made it clear she had only played a minor role in the operation.

Gregg admitted being in possession of a disguised firearm and to possessing cannabis with intent to supply.

Hirst also pleaded guilty to possessing the controlled drug with intent to supply and she was given a three month jail term, suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work.

Mr Phillips told the judge that after his arrest Gregg said he thought the disguised stun gun was a torch and not a weapon, having bought it some months earlier at a car boot sale.

The prosecutor said he had bought the disguised firearm because he was a man with a "fascination for weapons" but he went on, "We cannot say with certainty that it was capable of being fired."

The judge told Gregg: "The Nunchucks, BB gun and the stun gun fit in with the pattern of a drug dealer who is seeking to protect himself."