THREE Jamaicans who were secretly watched by an undercover police unit as they sold crack cocaine and heroin on the streets of Bolton have been found guilty.

The men will be deported back to their home country after they have served a jail sentence.

The gang were filmed as they made visits to a back street behind where they lived to make drug deals.

When officers raided two flats in a house in Bradford Street, The Haulgh, they found crack cocaine, heroin, mobile phones and cash.

The drugs search team discovered a total of £18,000 worth of crack cocaine, £3,000 worth of heroin and almost £7,000 in cash. Money transfer orders for several hundred pounds in false names made out to people in Jamaica were also discovered in the flat.

Kennard McKenzie, aged 32, Raymond Minzie, aged 40, and Barrington Laguerre, aged 40, all of Bradford Street, were convicted by majority verdicts yesterday at Bolton Crown Court after trial.

They had faced two charges of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs on January 8 this year. All three men had denied the charges.

A fourth man, Joseph Carter, is being sought by police. All three were remanded in custody until Friday, July 26, when they will be sentenced.

The court heard that Bolton drug unit officers had been keeping a house in Bradford Street under observation.

The officers suspected the three men of large-scale drug dealing in heroin and crack cocaine from two flats in the house.

They watched as McKenzie and the fourth man, Carter, left the flat on a number of occasions to visit a nearby back street. A drug transaction was also seen to take place in nearby Crawford Avenue. Later, the officers raided the flats in the house and found all four men. Carter had money, a mobile phone and keys to the other flat on him when arrested. McKenzie had £465 in cash on him and a mobile phone.

In the second flat, ready-made packages of crack cocaine and heroin were found hidden in a tea caddy, sugar container, under the bathroom sink and behind a toilet brush.

Almost three ounces of crack cocaine and a large amount of cash was found under the sink and a further £1,200 was found in a pile of clothes along with money transfer orders.