Man was hiding cocaine '˜between buttocks'

Police stopped and searched a Ballymena man and found he had a small plastic bag containing cocaine secreted, according to a prosecutor, 'between his buttocks'.

Terence Dunlop (27), of Queen Street, was stopped by police in the town’s Carnduff Drive area, where he used to live, on December 2 last year.

The prosecutor told Ballymena Magistrates Court on Thursday that officers said to Dunlop he was going to subjected to a “strip search”.

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