A BISEXUAL male escort got caught up in a drugs raid in a Redditch flat where he tried to get rid of a sock full of heroin and crack cocaine, a court heard.

Wayne Lindsey told a hearing at Worcester Crown Court he had been forced to flee from Bristol after a homophobic attack put him in hospital.

The 42-year-old said he had moved to Worcester in December 2013, and had gone to Maggs Day Centre before being given a place at St Paul's Hostel in Tallow Hill.

After living with the help of the Night Sleepers Project in the city until January this year, he moved to Redditch to stay with a woman in Winforton Close who was a drug user.

The business studies graduate, who arrived in this country from Barbados in 1996, told the court he was bisexual and supplemented his income by providing sexual services as a male escort for between £40 and £70.

On the morning of February 26, he visited the flat of another drug user in Fownhope Close, and was there when police forced the front door and carried out a raid at 7am.

Lindsey said he was given the sock full of drugs and told to get rid of it so he ran into the kitchen pursued by two police officers.

Ian Ball, prosecuting, said the officers thought he was about to throw it through the window and there was a struggle during which he dropped the sock into a sink full of washing up.

Police found crack cocaine and heroin divided into separate wraps and worth a total of £740.

Lindsey pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and cocaine with intent to supply but claimed at a hearing he had never been involved in selling drugs. He said he had only been in the flat for an hour when the police arrived.

After hearing his evidence, Judge Michael Cullum agreed that he was not directly involved in dealing and was to be sentenced for "a few seconds of activity" in which he tried to keep the sock from the police, knowing it contained drugs.

Lindsey was given a 12-month community order with 20 hours unpaid work.