Bicester drug dealer called Mr Friday spared prison

Stephen Friday, 49, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to being involved in supplying heroin and crack cocaine in Bicester last year.

Returning to Oxford Crown Court on Friday, October 13, a date the superstitious associate with ill-fate, the defendant, of Willow Drive, Bicester, was handed two years’ imprisonment suspended for a year-and-a-half by Recorder John Bate-Williams.

As part of the order, Friday must abide by a drug rehabilitation programme and a mental health treatment requirement.