A TEACHER was jailed for dealing in Ecstasy.

Stephen Fisk, 40, of Prospect Terrace, York, pleaded guilty at the city's Crown Court to possessing 64 Ecstasy tablets with intent to supply, last October.

He told police they were only intended for himself and a close circle of friends.

Handing down a 15-month jail sentence to Fisk, a University of York graduate and maths teacher, Recorder Geoffrey Marson QC said: "It is always a source of great sadness to find someone like you, intelligent, having no previous convictions and about whom good things are said, before a court.

"However in your case, sense and intelligence do not necessarily go together."

Prosecutor Nick Worsley said a member of the public told a doorman at the Lowther public house in York that she believed drugs had been exchanged there.

When Fisk was asked to turn out his pockets he refused, and the police were called. Mr Worsley said 64 ecstasy tablets with a street value of about £645 were found in the pocket of Fisk's jeans, together with a small amount of amphetamine.

Fisk said when he left home he had inadvertently picked up the larger of two packets, intending only to take with him sufficient tablets for his own use.

The prosecutor said the ecstasy had a value of around £645, for which Fisk had paid less than half.