Three drug dealers have been jailed for a total of more than seven years.

Dylan Harrison, 22, Kye Pasquale, 20, and Robert Poynter, 30, were arrested at a flat in Argent Street, Grays, on April 26 last year.

Upon entering the flat, police officers found drugs including cocaine and drugs paraphernalia.

Harrison admitted one count of possession of class A drugs with intent to supply and one count of possession of class B drugs with intent to supply when he appeared at Basildon Crown Court on June 21.

Pasquale and Poynter admitted the same charges when they appeared at the same court on November 26.

A fourth man, Jaz Blundell, 27, admitted to permitting premises to be used for the supply of drugs when he appeared at court on the same day.

They were all sentenced on Tuesday.

Pasquale, of New Road, Grays, was jailed for three years and three months. Poynter, of Gourney Grove, Grays, was jailed for two years and eight months. Harrison, of Tower Street, Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, was jailed for two years and four months, and Blundell, of North Road, South Ockendon was sentenced to a 24-month community order.