The South Wales Evening Post has named a teenage drug dealer after it made a successful request to identify him.

The 17-year-old was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court, but could not be named in press reports of the case after a court order was imposed under the Children and Young Persons Act because of his age.

Unusually, the order was not made by the judge who sentenced the teenager, but by another judge later that day.

However, six days after the sentencing hearing, the Evening Post's request to name the youth was granted.

He was jailed for three-and-a-half years for supplying crack cocaine and heroin in Swansea.

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