A DRUG dealer has been told to pay back more than £10,000 of his ill-gotten gains - or face another six months behind bars.

Sydonia Willis was jailed for four years in September last year after he was convicted of possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply.

The 40-year-old Jamaican, who came to the UK in 2002, had more than £5,500 worth of the drug hidden in his Upper Stratton flat.

A confiscation hearing at Swindon Crown Court ruled that he benefited to the tune of £14,175 from his criminal lifestyle.

But he will only have to pay back £10,511 as that is the total value of his realisable assets, recorder David Lane QC ruled.

And if he doesn't hand over the cash in the next six months he will have another six months added to his sentence.

Willis, of Broughton Grange, Queens Drive, denied the allegation but was found guilty following a four-day trial.

The court heard that police raided his Kipling Gardens flat on Tuesday, April 19, 2005, and found the drugs hidden in a sock inside a wash bag.

Under the drawer at the bottom of the wardrobe officers found 12 bundles of cash, each containing £1,000.

In another drawer they found a set of electronic scales and, on top of the wardrobe, a piece of glass, both of which had residues of cocaine on them.

They also found a razor blade and craft knife used for dividing the drugs and two small rolls of clingfilm.

Willis was arrested later that day and found to have the keys to the flat on his key ring, which was with him.

When he was questioned by police he answered "no comment" to whatever he was asked by the officers.

However, at his trial he claimed that he had been seeing a woman behind his wife's back and she had rented the flat.

During the affair he said he had visited the premises, which explained why his fingerprints were there, but insisted he had nothing to do with the drugs.

He said his girlfriend, Kelly Bailey, had also left her keys in his car and asked him to return them to her.

However, he insisted the girlfriend was not the same woman as his wife, who is also called Kelly but whose maiden name was Dailey.

He said his wife's fingerprints were found on the tenancy document because it had been left in his car and she must have touched it when she went through his belongings in the vehicle when they got back together.

But the jury of nine men and three women rejected his explanation and found him guilty of having the drugs with intent to supply.