A TEENAGER has been warned he will be locked up if he does not realise the seriousness of breaching a Community Service Order.

Sajid Khan, 19, from Spearing Road, High Wycombe, was given a 220 hour order at Aylesbury Crown Court in February this year after admitting charges of offering to supply heroin and possession of cannabis in August.

Khan was back in the crown court last Monday, facing sentence for the breach.

John Simmons, prosecuting, said Khan had failed to provide satisfactory explanations for two absences from community service after doing 25 hours work.

Kate Brunner, defending, said Khan, who committed the original offences after he went with a friend to sell heroin to undercover police officers, had not deliberately flouted the order. She said Khan was not the ringleader in the heroin deal and had behaved foolishly and naively, adding: "It was a one-off offence and he no longer associates with former acquaintances."

Judge Daniel Rodwell QC ordered Khan to perform a further 20 hours community service and pay costs of £150 and said: "Quite exceptionally I will not send you to prison today but if you do not take this order seriously and breach it again, you will be going into custody."