An Ipswich teenager who continued drug dealing within days of being given a suspended sentence for earlier drug  dealing offences has been locked up for a year.

Gabriel Szypulski was given a suspended sentence at Ipswich Crown Court on July 11 for being involved in the supply of cocaine and cannabis and within two weeks he was seen with a known drug user on the river towpath in Ipswich.

Szypulski had a mobile phone and officers saw bank notes protruding from his trainers and when they searched his home they found cash, a SIM card and a burner phone, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

Outgoing messages were found on the mobile phone advertising the sale of drugs on the “Turk”  drug-line and there were messages saying he’d been given a suspended sentence but was continuing to deal drugs while on a tag.

Szypulski, 19, of Fulham Way, Ipswich, admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis between May 15 and July 26 this year.

Judge David Wilson, who sentenced Szypulski to the suspended sentence in July, gave him three months detention in a young offenders’ institution for being concerned in the supply of cannabis with nine months to run consecutively for breaching the earlier suspended sentence.

He made a forfeiture order for £590 found in Szypulski’s possession when he was arrested.

Barnaby Shaw for Szypulski said his client had carried on drug dealing after being given the suspended prison sentence after being threatened by the people he’d previously been selling drugs for.

“He was given a phone and a customer database and told to get on with it,” said Mr Shaw.

He said Szypulski wanted to go to university to study accountancy when he was released from custody.