A Melksham bodybuilder who sold weak cocaine to other gym users so they could train for longer has been jailed for two years and 10 months.

Although Ross Fleming only had small amounts of the drug when police raided his home, he had vast quantities of cutting agents as well as presses for making tablets.

And despite hearing the 35-year-old former soldier had cleaned up his act since his arrest in the summer of 2012 a judge still jailed him.

Claire Marlow, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court on Friday how police raided his family home in Calne in July last year.

In the property they found they found a few grams of white powder which had cocaine at below one per cent purity and traces of the drug on a coffee grinder.

They also found numerous agents which are commonly used as cutting agents, to dilute cocaine, including almost three quarters of a kilogram of benzocaine.

Traces of the class A drug were also found on a press and the copper rings which go in it.

Officers also found a large tub of creatine which as well as being used by bodybuilders is also an adulterant for cocaine.

When he was arrested he insisted all the drugs were for his personal use as he had drink and cocaine habits.

But he later admitted he would sell the drugs, mixed to be very weak, to friends at the gym to allow them to lift weights for longer.

Fleming, of Linnet Lane, Melksham, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.

Marcus Davey, defending, said his client, who had been in the Army for 12 years, would make and supply pills to a limited number of gym users with a concentration of cocaine at about three per cent, but some times as low as one.

"Street deals are on average 20 to 40 per cent," he told the court.

"These were being used not for a high but rather to assist with gym work, weightlifting, so bigger weights can be lifted and over a longer period.

Since his arrest he said he had got off drugs, was reducing his alcohol intake and was in work.

Mr Davey asked the court to give him 'a last and final chance' and allow him to keep his liberty.

But jailing him, Judge Euan Ambrose said "The seriousness of what you are before the court for means I can't do as asked and it would not be right for me to do so."