AN Alresford man has been handed a conditional discharge after he was found with a class B drug.

Kevin Purdue, of John Arlott Court, had 300mg of amphetamine in Alresford on August 31 last year, a court heard. 

Purdue, 51, pleaded guilty at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, March 6.

He has been handed a conditional discharge for six months and the drug was ordered to be destroyed.