A student caught dealing drugs a month after being arrested for a similar matter has been jailed for a year.

Craig McMullan was first found with hundreds of pounds worth of cannabis after plain clothes cops picked up the smell of drugs coming from his car.

And a month later the 24-year-old was out driving again and panicked when he saw a police car with its sirens and blue lights on.

As the patrol passed him at Derry Hill they saw him throwing things from his window and stopped to find had more cannabis.

Sentencing him a judge at Swindon Crown Court said he had left him with no option but to jail him for continuing in the trade.

Claire Marlow, prosecuting, said McMullan was first arrested in Calne on Wednesday February 25 when officers spotted the smell of cannabis coming from his car.

His house was searched officers found 94 grams of the drug, most of it divided into street deals, and £100 in cash.

When he was questioned he said he had been selling to raise cash as being a student he only got a grant in three instalments a year

Miss Marlow said on Thursday March 26 officers on their way to an incident in Corsham approached traffic in Derry Hill and saw things being thrown from a car.

As they stopped to look in the vehicle the driver was trying to send a text to his mum telling her to move some things from the living room of his house.

In his car they found 13g amount of cannabis, but again at his house he had 97g of the drug and a set of digital scales.

The total amount of drug seized had a street value of about £2,000, the court was told.

McMullan, of Anson Avenue, Calne, admitted two counts of possession with intent to supply and one of possession.

In December 2009 he was convicted of two counts of the same offence.

Marcus Davey, defending, said his client had only been supplying for about a month before his first arrest and to a small group of friends.

"His utter lack of sophistication was shown on the second occasion when he was throwing drugs from the car when the police weren't even interested in him."

Judge Tim Mousley QC said he would have imposed a suspended sentence for the first matter, but jailing him he said "You didn't stop there.

"The fact that you were dealing again casts some doubt on the reason you were dealing on the first occasion, and casts doubt on the number of people you were supplying to.

"In the light of your going back to what you had been doing a month earlier it would now, in my view, be impossible to suspend the imprisonment I had in mind for the earlier offence."