A DRUGS minder arrested after some ecstasy tablets were spotted by chance on his coffee table confessed on the way to a police station that there were actually more drugs at his Wirral home.

And when officers were back to Ivan Gorman's home they not only found 2,000 Ecstasy tablets but a kilo of cocaine.

The 42-year-old, who had a suspended sentence hanging over him at the time, was jailed today for a total of four and a half years.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that police went to Gorman's home in Roseland Court in Rock Ferry on January 17 about an unrelated matter and an officer saw some tablets in his living room.

Gorman admitted they were Ecstasy tablets and he was arrested and taken to a police station but en route he told them there was also cocaine and they went back and found it along with the stash of more Ecstasy tablets, said Christopher Hopkins, prosecuting.

Gorman pleaded guilty to two offences of possessing drugs with intent on the basis that he was minding them.

The court heard that because his speedy admission the cocaine had not been forensically analysed and its purity and value was unknown.

The court heard that he has previous convictions for possessing drugs and was in breach of a suspended sentence imposed in February last year for possessing drugs and money laundering involving £3000 cash.

Gerald Pachter, defending, said that Gorman, who appeared via video link from Walton jail, accepted he would receive a custodial sentence. The offences happened just three weeks before the suspended sentence expired.

Sentencing him Judge Clement Goldstone, QC, the Recorder of Liverpool, said: "You were minding these drugs in return for free Class A drugs to which you have over the years become addicted."