A dealer who aimed to make his town the hardest in Lancashire has been jailed for 20 months. Michael Beckett hoped to a tidy profit by illegally supplying the anti- impotence drug Viagra below the market rate. He had 4,400 Viagra tablets stashed away which had a street value of £30,000 the court was told. The 24-year-old intended to sell his internet-bought Viagra individually to men in Leyland, Lancashire, at the price of about £6.50 a tablet. But Viagra is a prescription-only drug and therefore retailers need a licence to sell it – and Beckett, of Preston, did not have one. He admitted four offences of selling Viagra without a licence at a court hearing on Tuesday. He was also in breach of a suspended jail term and had broken bail. He was jailed for a total of 20 months by a judge at Preston Crown Court. Daniel King, in mitigation, said Beckett had not been aware he was committing an offence. After the hearing, Lancashire's chief trading standards officer, Jim Potts, said: 'This is a prescription drug and should not be bought from a man down the street or in the pub. 'In some cases we have found pills which purport to be Viagra but are just vitamin pills dyed blue.'