A heroin dealer has been evicted from his Roehampton council flat after being jailed for conspiring to sell drugs.

Nicholas Brown, 20, from Hurstbourne House, in Tangley Grove, was caught by police after throwing a number of heroin wraps from his car window in Roehampton Lane as he was being pursued.

Officers had initially tried to stop Brown's car but he sped off and was seen desperately trying to get rid of the Class A wraps.

He was jailed for three years and nine months at Kingston Crown Court on December 17 last year, but the local authority decided last week that he will no longer be allowed to remain in his council-owned flat when he is released from prison.

By committing a serious criminal offence, Brown breached his council flat tenancy agreement with Wandsworth Council . Under this agreement, all tenants, lodgers, friends and visitors are forbidden from a range of criminal and anti-social activities.

Housing spokesman Councillor Paul Ellis said: "There is no room on our housing estates for people who choose to deal drugs.

"People who break the conditions face the very real risk of losing that accommodation."

Over the past three years 22 people have been evicted from their council property because of criminal and anti-social behaviour.

For more information visit www.wandsworth.gov.housing.