The former manager of a Haverfordwest sex shop has been convicted of being part of a drugs trail that stretched hundreds of miles across the country.

Neil Thomas Walters, aged 36, of Dark Street, Haverfordwest, was warned he faced "a long time in jail" after a jury at Swansea Crown Court took less than an hour to find him guilty.

Walters had denied conspiring to supply cocaine and ecstasy.

The court had previously heard how Martin Peter Flynn, the "Mr Big" of the ring turned out to be a serving fireman.

Flynn was the "wholesaler" of drugs to a three-man team spreading them around west Wales.

Flynn, promising rugby player Lewis Wood, and Philip White, who boasted of being the "number one gangster in Pembrokeshire", had all admitted conspiring to supply class A drugs.

Wood, of Hawthorne Lodge, Ashdale Lane, Llangwm; White, of Flat 5, 25 Hill Street, Haverfordwest, and Flynn will all be sentenced alongside Walters.

Prosecutor Ian Wright said Flynn supplied Wood while White and Walters were the local distributors.

Police logged 1,275 calls and text messages between mobile telephones owned by Walters and Wood, who played rugby for the Wales National Amateur team and Narberth RFC.

In some messages, Walters, who used the nickname Hitman, was asked for "the paper," which Mr Wright said was a reference to money.

He said Walters did not deal directly with Flynn, based at Gorton, Manchester, but he knew Flynn was the supplier.

Police photographed White entering Walters' home and while he was there White sent a text message to Flynn reading: "Got a grand mate. It is slow as we have got a pile of biscuits left."

Mr Wright said "Biscuits" was a code name for ecstasy tablets.

By now police were reading the text messages and on April 20 they pounced in a Tesco car park in north Wales catching Flynn and White "red-handed" as Flynn handed over 250 grammes of cocaine.

Flynn was in a stolen BMW convertible with fake number plates and had £1,160 on him.

After his arrest Walters, once the manager of the Cloud Nine sex shop, Haverfordwest, but now working at the West Wales Diving Centre, said Wood had loaned him money and he was in the process of paying him back.

Forensic tests on electronic weighing scales found at his home showed traces of both cocaine and ecstasy. Police also discovered that Walters had filmed his girlfriend Cindy Cowper giggling as she apparently cut cocaine into lines.