A drug dealer was caught peddling cannabis by police for a third time this year.

Matthew Joyce, who kept his stock in the porch as his wife didn't want it in the house, was on bail when a customer pulled up outside his house in an uninsured car.

But a passing police patrol with an automatic number plate recognition camera flagged up the vehicle as not having the right documentation so officers investigated.

And when the driver told them he had just bought the bag of drugs on him from the house he just came out of they went in and arrested Joyce, 35, again.

Russell Pyne, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court the defendant was first caught on Tuesday, January 29 when police raided his house.

Inside they found £370 worth of cannabis as well as digital scales and numerous small snap lock bags and about a gram of cocaine, which was for his own use.

He was released on bail but two days later rode his bike past a policeman who stopped him because of a strong smell of cannabis and found he had a tiny quantity on him.

Then on Monday, March 25 he was found with £420 worth of cannabis, and similar paraphernalia, after selling some to the uninsured motorist.

During the two raids officers also found £345 in cash which has been seized by the court under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Joyce, of Harford Street, Trowbridge, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of cannabis with intent to supply, and possessing cannabis and cocaine, and was handed a community order by Judge Euan Ambrose.

He told him he must be on a drug rehabilitation requirement for six months, do 140 hours of unpaid work and observe a 6am to 6pm curfew for three months.