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A "dangerous" drug dealer who was unable to prove how he could afford his luxury lifestyle has been jailed.

Dominic Denton, 42, of Glamorgan Road, Ipswich was handed a jail term of eight-and-a-half years at Ipswich Crown Court for numerous offences, including supplying drugs and money laundering.

Officers were able to bring together evidence from multiple sources to obtain guilty pleas from Denton following "a long and complex" investigation, Suffolk Police said.

Det Ch Insp Matt Bodmer said the force would "continue to work tirelessly to locate those involved in this dreadful industry that destroys families and preys on the most vulnerable".

Evidence including CCTV, mobile phone data, financial investigations, as well as seizures of drugs, phones and large quantities of cash, were used to build the case.

Following warrants for Denton's arrest and other locations connected to him, officers found designer goods and expensive vehicles.

He also made regular trips to Jamaica where he had his own links to a property.

Officers were able to correlate drug activity in the Ipswich area and times when there was a drop off in activity for certain drug dealing lines including periods when Denton was in Jamaica.

Denton admitted the charges - two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, one count of money laundering and one count of fraud.

He was also sentenced to three years for money laundering and three months for fraud which will be served concurrently.

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