A father-of-two who continued to organise a drug dealing operation even when he was behind bars was jailed for a further 19 years today.

A court heard that Jordan Moore, 26, controlled a "substantial and lucrative enterprise" supplying cocaine and cannabis in Worthing, West Sussex, over a four-year period.

He had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to supply Class A and C drugs but denied an offence of grievous bodily harm with intent.

However, a jury found him guilty of the charge on Friday following a six-week trial, in which he appeared alongside six other defendants including his mother and girlfriend.

He returned to Hove Crown Court for sentencing alongside another defendant, Jonathan Reeve today, while Robert Standen was sentenced separately. The other defendants will be sentenced at a later date.

The court heard that Moore, formerly of Cotswold Road, Durrington, issued orders to his associates from his cell at Lewes Prison over his mobile phone.

He was also involved in organising drugs runs to prisons so packages could be thrown over the walls to inmates between July 2004 and August last year.

In December 2007 he ordered a violent attack on one associate, David James, as he claimed he owed him more than £12,000, which he had been trying to pay off by drug dealing for him.

But the court heard that the debt had grown as whenever James went to buy cocaine from him to sell on, Moore would always give him more of the drug than he had asked for, meaning he owed him yet more money.

The attack, which was carried out by Reeve using a Stanley knife, left James with injuries to his wrists and calf and he nearly lost his life due to the amount of blood lost.

Judge Richard Hayward said Reeve had "expressed no remorse for what happened".

He jailed Reeve, 29, of Jarvis Road, Arundel, for a total of 21 years as he had continued to deny supplying Class A and C drugs along with the charge of grievous bodily harm.

Jurors acquitted him of charges of blackmail, causing actual bodily harm and making threats to kill, however, while they also found Moore not guilty of the latter charge.

Robert Standen, 23, of Canberra Road, Worthing, had denied conspiracy to supply Class A and C drugs and of possessing an explosive substance but was also found guilty of all three charges on Friday.

He had admitted possession of cocaine with intent to supply, possession of ecstasy with intent to supply and possession of amphetamines with intent to supply and was jailed for 13 years today.

Both Moore's girlfriend, Carrie Ann McGee, and his mother Maxine Moore, were found guilty of possessing criminal property and will be sentenced at a later date.