A THUG who was jailed for just 16 weeks for a brutal assault on his wife has now been locked up for four years and eight months for dealing heroin.

Ex- takeaway worker Jubel Miah, 21, who was already a convicted street dealer, claimed in court he had been threatened at gunpoint by people who said he owed £10,000.

Police had discovered heroin, scales and almost £3,000 in his padlocked bedroom at the family home and a cannabis stash in a brand new BMW outside. He was bailed and struck again, hurling a near £1,500 drugs package over a wall when he ran from the police.

Burnley Crown Court heard how Miah lied when questioned by officers after the first find, denying the heroin was his, let alone that he was under duress.

The defendant was recently jailed for 16 weeks for assault by magistrates, after terrorising his young wife in a year-long campaign of abuse and stabbing her with scissors. He was dealing drugs over nine months of it and was arrested for peddling heroin the second time this year just two days after the vicious attack on September 17.

The defendant, of Merton Street, Burnley, admitted possessing heroin and cannabis with intent to supply on January 10 and possessing heroin with intent on September 19. Miah had been sent to youth custody for 12 months in June 2010, after pleading guilty to possessing heroin with intent to supply. Police had found 36 wraps of heroin in his trouser waistband.

He has 20 offences on his record, including robbery and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

Sentencing, Recorder Suzanne Goddard, QC, told the defendant: “These are serious matters indeed, made more serious by the commission of the second offence while you were on bail.”