A 36-YEAR-OLD man who obstructed a police search when he was in possession of five wraps of cocaine in a Forest town has been conditionally discharged for 16 months.

George Hawkins, address unknown, was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £26 surcharge by Cheltenham magistrates.

He pleaded guilty to obstructing a PC in the execution of his powers of search in Severn Road, Lydney, on April 25 and possessing the cocaine on the same occasion.,

The court ordered forfeiture and destruction of the class A drug.