A 22-year-old High Wycombe man was sent back to jail after being caught with £2,000 of heroin while he was on parole for attempted armed robbery.

Banaris Hussain was locked up for 15 months after pleading guilty to possessing 11.1 grammes of the drug on October 18 last year.

Aylesbury Crown Court heard on Friday how a member of the public had called police officers to Lower Verney Close, High Wycombe, because of suspicious goings-on.

Paul Reid, prosecuting, said plain clothed officers saw Hussain emerge from a wooded area and walk towards a parked Land Rover Discovery at the end of the close.

Mr Reid said the defendant ran off but was chased and caught. Police found the heroin, along with other drug related paraphernalia, including silver foil, paper wraps, methadone and a Stanley Knife in the off-road vehicle.

Hussain initially denied any knowledge of the Land Rover and claimed to be on his way home using a short cut but police recovered his fingerprints from the four-by-four's rear view mirror.

In April 1998 the court heard Hussain received four years detention for attempted armed robbery and had been released on parole licence at the end of 1999.

Paul Wakerley, defence, said in mitigation that Hussain had gone through a course of detoxification in custody and no longer abused drugs.

A further charge alleging Hussain had 205 grammes of heroin with intent to supply, which he denied, was left to lie on the court file.

Judge David Morton Jack ordered Hussain back to prison to serve nine months of his outstanding sentence, consecutive to six months for possessing the 11.1 grammes of heroin.