A DRUG dealer who threatened a juror he accused of being racist was caught in a churchyard with heroin and crack cocaine concealed between his bottom cheeks, a court heard.

Yusuf Farah was caught at St George’s Church in Farnworth in March with between £900 and £1,250 of the class A drugs, most of which had been hidden in his rear end.

Farah encountered the juror on the steps of Bolton Crown Court at 4pm on August 29, having been found guilty of an affray charge.

He accused her and a group of fellow jurors of racism, before running behind the woman a short while later and saying: “All you white people are racist towards us blacks.”

He then said, in a threatening tone of voice: “You are going to get it, you are going to get it, one day.”

The juror, who felt “fearful and threatened”, returned to court to report the incident.

Farah, of Avenue Street, Halliwell, had been found guilty of affray after throwing a glass bottle in the direction of police officers in Nelson Sqaure, near J2 nightclub, on January 26.

He has since pleaded guilty to intimidating a juror and two charges of possession of class A drugs with the intent to supply.

On March 15, Farah was caught by officers patrolling in Plodder Lane, Farnworth, who saw him go into the grounds of St George’s Church.

He was caught with four wraps of heroin and one crack cocaine wrap in his jogging bottoms.

Lindsay Thomas, prosecuting, said: “He was handcuffed and arrested and was taken to the police station where he was told he would be strip-seached.

“When asked, he said ‘I have got more, in my arse’.

“Officers found a medium-sized bag clenched between his bottom cheeks.”

In the bag, were 25 wraps of crack cocaine and 30 wraps of heroin, with the combined 16.94 grams of heroin and 6.91 grams of cocained having a street value of between £900 and £1,250.

Nick Ross, defending, said Farah, aged 20, was one of seven siblings whose parents, originally from Somalia, had moved to the UK from Denmark when the defendant was aged eight.

Mr Ross described the matter as a “tragedy” for Farah’s “hard-working” family and said the defendant wished to apologise for his behaviour towards the juror, which was “immature and entirely” inappropriate.

Judge Timothy Stead, in sentencing Farah to three-and-a-half years in a young offender’s institute, said: “This offence has the tendency to strike at the heart of trial by jury.

“Jurors must feel that they can come to this court to do their duty and leave without being subject to threat and intimidation.

“Therefore significant punishment must always be attached to matters where this occurs.”