POLICE found more than a kilo of cannabis in buckets under a man’s bed.

Bolton Crown Court heard how Sohail Bux was caught when officers stopped a car in which he was a passenger in Brandleshome Road, Bury, on February 16.

Philip Dobson, prosecuting, said: “He seemed ill at ease and hiding something and there was a smell of cannabis.”

A search of Bux and the car revealed 10 wraps of cocaine and 12g of cannabis on him and under his seat.

Police then raided the home in Gaythorne Street, Bolton, which he shares with his parents and four siblings.

Mr Dobson said that, in his attic bedroom, they found 1.3kg of cannabis, a quantity of bags and two sets of scales.

Officers also recovered £1,280 in cash.

Bux, aged 29, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cannabis and possessing cocaine.

Judge Timothy Stead was told how takeaway worker Bux had been regularly using drugs, spending around £100 a week on his habit.

He claimed that he had bought the cannabis found in his room 10 months earlier for £2,500 from someone who was getting rid of it. He used some of it himself and sold amounts to around ten friends.

The court was told how Bux, a father-of-three, had had to give up a course at Manchester University after he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

But his father employed him in a takeaway and he works to support his children and their mothers.

Judge Stead was told that Bux, who has no previous convictions, is remorseful and has stopped taking drugs.

Sentencing him to nine months, suspended for two years, the judge told Bux he was ‘surprised’ that, with his medical condition, he had involved himself with illegal drugs.

“You succumbed to the temptation of accepting a significant quantity of cannabis,” he said.

In addition Bux must also participate in 20 days of rehabilitation activities and a thinking skills course.