A DRUG dealer who made more than £100,000 from his illicit trade has been ordered to hand back most of his profits or face a further two-year jail term.

Martin Johnson has been given six months to pay £66,750 or face the extra time in custody - and still have to pay the cash.

Although the amount he made from the trade is significantly higher than the amount he has to repay, the court can only order him to hand over what he has.

The 26-year-old is being forced to sell his £195,000 house in Grosvenor Road, Kingshill, to release the £59,000 equity he has in it, although three per cent is deducted for the cost of the sale.

A number of cars which he owns have also been valued and their worth, thought to be about £13,000, is added, along with the £600 he had on him when he was arrested in November last year.

However, despite there being a restraining order in place, a £4,000 Peugeot 307 has already been sold. But the prosecution decided not to make an issue of it.

At a confiscation hearing at Swindon Crown Court, Recorder Ignatius Hughes ruled that the benefit to Johnson from criminal conduct was £109,555 and the realisable assets were £66,750.

He ordered the second sum to be confiscated giving him six months to pay the money. He set a sentence of two years in lieu of not paying in time.

Johnson was jailed for eight years in February after admitting possessing heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine with intent to supply.

At the time the police described him as a significant dealer on the Swindon drug scene who supplied street dealers with their stock.

He was stopped in his Volkswagen Golf and found to be in possession of heroin and crack cocaine stashed in detergent and cereal boxes.

When his home was searched more of the class A drugs were found hidden in soft drinks cans.

In total, he was found to 1kg of heroin, 0.5kg of crack cocaine and about 80g of cocaine, together worth about £70,000 in street deals.

After last month's sentencing hearing, police described him as a significant dealer and said the drugs were, without doubt, destined for sale on the streets of Swindon and the surrounding area.