Montel Kensah, 27, was described as selling the substances “in a prolific way” and was tracked down by police after they arrested the boy and analysed his mobile phone.

Ipswich Crown Court heard on Monday messages on the phone were tracked back to Kensah who was stopped driving an Audi without insurance.

Inside the car, officers found several mobile phones which Kensah had used to run what was known as the “Mo” drugs line.

Juliette Donovan, prosecuting, said: “He is the operator and controller of the line.

“He is selling these drugs in a prolific way.

“A 14-year-old is obviously connected with this and he has been instructed to sell those Class A and Class B drugs.”

Kensah, now of Avon Dale Road, Ipswich, appeared in court via video link having previously admitted being concerned in the supply cocaine, crack cocaine, cannabis, heroin, and ecstasy, as well as charges of cannabis possession and driving a car without insurance.

Claire Mawer, mitigating, said Kensah lived with a drug dealer who died, which resulted in the defendant being approached to sell drugs to pay off his debt.

She said: “This individual sadly lost his life and as a result of those circumstances Kensah was approached by those with whom his friend had been working.

“He was told his friend had accrued debt and Kensah was put under pressure to repay.”

She argued Kensah did not know the person he was instructing to transport the drugs around Colchester was 14, and that the teenager was already working for the line before the defendant became involved.

The sentence had to be adjourned because Kensah’s mitigation had not been set out in a basis of plea – a legal term which sets out why a defendant has pleaded guilty.

Judge Richard Kelly described the omission as “absolutely absurd”.

The case was relisted for next Monday.

Fox, of Peldon, Essex, was fired from GB News in October 2023 after an on-air rant about journalist Ava Evans.

In a tweet posted in April 2024, the 46-year-old is said to have shared a compromising image of the broadcaster who appears regularly on Good Morning Britain and GB News.

Posting on X at the time, Kaur, 52, said the image was “unimaginably mortifying”.

Fox addressed the situation in an extended post the following day, in which he said he “would like to apologise” to Kaur.

He then went on to say, “it’s not my fault” Kaur was pictured in the compromising image more than 15 years ago.

Police have charged the former GB News presenter after a one-month investigation.

He is due to appear at court next month.