Scott Walker (36) returned to his home on Yorke Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, to find a police cordon around the property on 5th August.

A 60m cordon had been set up by emergency services after explosive gas canisters were uncovered at the site – leading to residents being evacuated from their homes and forced to spend the night with friends and relatives.

Walker appeared before Mansfield magistrates on Wednesday, where he was fined £100 for being in possession of heroin.

Upon discovering the cordon and being unable to enter his home to access his methadone prescription, he had driven to Nottingham to buy £15 of the drug.

Magistrates were told that Walker had hidden some of the drugs behind a light fixture in his car later that night.

Walker was then arrested on the morning of 6th August when a police officer observed him attempting to retrieve the drugs from the vehicle.

Magistrates told Walker his fine had been reduced by a third in light of his early guilty plea and he was also ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge.