A DRUG dealer who took part in a major £676,000 conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine in a Hampshire city has been ordered to pay back just £5.
Tristan Pope, who was jailed for eight years in January, was told by a judge at Southampton Crown Court that he will have his prison sentence extended by a week if he did not pay the sum back within three months.
The Crown Prosecution Service told the Daily Echo that the police had not been able to find any assets belonging to Pope.
Hampshire Constabulary say that they will monitor his finances after he is released from prison.
Pope, 22, of no fixed abode was part of a major drugs gang, which supplied Southampton over an 11 month period.
Police discovered, and gathered evidence against the drugs ring whilst investigating the murder of Michael Freshwater, 49, who was stabbed to death last April in a flat used by two of the gang.
The killing is currently unsolved. No-one has been charged in connection with father-of-four Mr Freshwater’s death although three people were arrested.
The other gang members convicted for the drugs operation in Southampton were Jammoy Bent, 25, of Golden Grove who was jailed for eight years. Daniel Sadler, 34, of King George’s Avenue, Shirley. He was given a two-year suspended sentence along with a 30-day rehabilitation requirement. Dantai Thompson, 18, of no fixed abode, was jailed for two years, and Daniel Ferrett, 29, of no fixed abode, was imprisoned for four and half years.
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