A DRUG dealer who returned to the UK illegally after being deported has been jailed after a court heard he twice produced a false driver's licence when stopped by police in Wrexham.

Robert Trybulski was told by Judge Timothy Petts that to use false identification documents to try to avoid detection was a serious matter. "But you did it twice," he said.

To make matters worse, he should not have been in the country at all.

Trybulski, 29, of no fixed abode but who had been living in Wrexham, admitted perverting the course of justice, twice producing a false Lithuanian driving licence and failing to provide a specimen of breath.

He was jailed for a total of 18 months and was banned from driving for 21 months.

Mold Crown Court was told Trybulski was jailed for a year for amphetamine and cannabis supply offences in 2017 and was then deported to Poland.

But barrister Dafydd Roberts, prosecuting, said when stopped by police driving an Audi at 4am on February 24 he gave police a false name and produced a fake driving licence.

He was charged with failing to provide a specimen of breath and released under false identification and when stopped again on February 5 he did the same again. But by then his true identity was known.

Barrister Phillip Clemo, defending, said his client had not produced a false passport to enter the UK.

After being deported back to Poland he lived in Ireland but his partner had a health scare.

She cared for their son but worked shifts and he was so concerned that he caught came though Holyhead "on the back of a lorry".

Mr Clemo said he obtained the false driving licence after arriving in the UK so he could produce it if stopped by the police.

He did not want the police to delve further into his status and produced the licence to officers.

Mr Clemo said he knew he had done wrong and appreciated the court would take a dim view.

He had not returned and committed offences that he had committed in the past.

"There is nothing to suggest he was dealing drugs again or anything of that nature," he said.

"It was a genuine attempt to come back and assist his family."

An earlier sentencing hearing was halted amid allegations, later not pursed in court, that he had obtained a false passport and entered the country illegally by flying in through Birmingham Airport.