A Radlett golfer was jailed last week after police found 12 bars of cannabis resin stashed in the boot of his car at Mill Hill Golf Club.

John Richard Barber, 34, of Kendals Close, was jailed for three-and-a-half years last Wednesday, after a judge heard that police also found £26,080 cash from drug dealing at his mother's Borehamwood flat.

Keen-golfer Barber was arrested, on April 5, after police searched his VW Golf and found the bars of cannabis, weighing three kilos, in a holdall in the boot, the court heard.

Barber, a club member for four years, had picked up the cannabis that morning, and intended to keep a kilo of it in his club locker and sell the rest, prosecutor Peter Gribble told the court.

When Barber was searched, at Borehamwood Police Station, £167.32 from drug dealing was found, and he told police he was "in it for the money", the court heard.

Police also found 37.4 grammes of cannabis resin at his home, and 190.79 grammes of the drug in the kitchen his mother's Laughton Court flat. At his mother's, police also found £26,080 and scales.

Ian Bourne, defending, said Barber, who has previous convictions for possessing cannabis and cocaine, intended, "to use this as an opportunity to change his lifestyle", and wanted to continue an engineering course, he had been doing, to provide for his partner and baby in the future.

The judge told Barber he was "not a small player in the system" and jailed him for three-and-a-half years for each of the two offences of possessing cannabis with intent to supply and for 12 months for possessing the drugs found at his home.

The sentences for the offences, which Barber admitted, will run concurrently.