Police and paramedics had to restrain a man who they found lying in the road following a car accident, a court has heard.

Ryan Dadwell, of Manor Way in Southall , was moving about so violently that a policeman had to sit across his legs, Guildford Crown Court heard on Wednesday (March 29).

“Even then, his legs were lifting my body off the ground,” PC Simon Payne said.

The officer and his colleagues noticed a package lying beside the injured man.

When it examined it was found to contain 22 wraps of heroin.

Police found a second bag containing another 11 wraps of the same Class A drug in the pocket of 25-year-old Dadwell’s trousers, it was revealed.

“There was a total of 33 wraps containing, altogether, 17.69 grams of heroin with an estimated street value of £1,300,” said prosecuting counsel, Peter Pride.

After Dadwell was airlifted to hospital from the accident scene at Seymour Way, Sunbury, and treated for a serious head injury, he was charged with possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply it to others.

The defendant denied the dealing charge and was cleared by a jury earlier this month, but he pleaded guilty to possession of the drug.

Dadwell was given a 12-month community order when he re-appeared for sentence on Wednesday (March 29) and was ordered to attend 24 rehabilitation sessions organised by the probation service.

Mr Pride said earlier that police and an ambulance crew had rushed to Seymour Way on June 14 last year after reports of an accident involving a pedestrian and a car.

'Screaming loudly'

“They discovered the defendant lying in the road and he had received a serious head injury,” he said.

In a statement to the court, PC Payne said: “He was struggling to get up and screaming loudly.”

He said he positioned his body across Dadwell’s legs but because the injured man continued to thrash about he had to be sedated by medical personnel.

PC Payne said he and other officers saw the package containing the drug wraps lying on the ground - and a search of the defendant’s pockets revealed the second parcel of Heroin wraps.

The court was told Dadwell was taken by helicopter to St George’s Hospital, Tooting, where his head wound was treated.

'Personal use'

Under cross-examination from defence counsel Joanna Hardy, a second police witness WPC Blair Elworthy acknowledged the defendant’s roadside behaviour could have been as a result of the wound to his head.

“I’m not a doctor. Whether it was due to his head injury or not, I can’t say - but it’s possible,” she said.

Dadwell, who said he was visiting his girlfriend in Sunbury at the time of the accident, said: “The drugs were for my own personal use.”

The defendant, who admitted he had been a regular heroin user a year ago, told the court that he had bought the heroin in bulk from a dealer he knew and trusted.

Dadwell said he had been having an argument with his partner in the street when the accident happened.

He denied suggestions from the prosecution that he had been planning to sell the heroin on to finance his own drug habit.

The defendant, who, the jury were told, had a previous conviction for possessing cannabis, apologised to police for his aggressive behaviour at the accident scene.

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