Nose powder turned out to be cocaine

A man found with white powder on his nose has narrowly avoided jail for possessing cocaine.

Andrew Quirk, of Windsor Road in Douglas, appeared before magistrates at Douglas Courthouse.

The 28-year-old admitted two counts of possessing the class A drug after police spotted him in Baldrine at 2.30pm on August 31, smelling of alcohol with powder on his nose.

He had just under 0.2g of cocaine in his jogging bottoms and officers found 11.4g of the same drug worth £1,140 at his home.

Quirk was handed a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and was also ordered to pay £125 costs.