A MAN who was spared jail when he was caught with tens of thousands of pounds worth of drugs hidden in his attic will have to hand over just £525.

Klodjan Sadiku was found with more than two-and-a-half kilograms of skunk, valued at £25,300, stashed away in the loft when police raided his home.

And a couple of months earlier officers had watched as the 37-year-old delivered another £20,000 bale of the drug, weighing almost 2kg, in a supermarket car park.

Despite finding he benefitted from crime to the tune of £34,550 a judge at Swindon Crown Court was told he had no assets of any real value.

He gave Sadiku three months to hand over £525, which is thought to be the value of electrical items seized by police, or face a 28 day jail term.

But even that figure could go down as the items have been put in for auction by financial investigators and may not sell for what they think they are worth.

Sadiku, of Friesland Close, Shaw, was sentenced to 12 months suspended for two years in January with 250 hours of unpaid work and four months curfew for supply and possession with intent.

Police were watching the car park at the West Swindon Asda at 8.30am on Christmas Eve 2014 when he met Wayne Dell and handed over 1.88kg of skunk.

Dell, 31, was stopped soon after and behind the driver's sliding door of his Mercedes van officers found the bag containing the drugs, worth about £20,000 on the street.

Police then went to Sadiku's home in Shaw on Friday, March 13, last year where they found the him sitting in the lounge with a number of telephones in front of him.

In the loft officers found two large vacuum sealed clear bags containing herbal cannabis weighing 2.53kg, worth £25,300 in street deals.

They also found scales and what was believed to be a 'tick list' indicating people who owed him for the drugs.

After being told that neither men had been convicted of drugs matters in the past a judge decided not to send them straight to prison.

Dell, of Dickens Close, admitted possession with intent to supply and got six months suspended for two years with 200 hours of work and a three-month curfew.