A cocaine dealer who benefitted to the tune of almost £200,000 has been ordered to pay back just £2,500 of his ill-gotten gains.
Liam Friar's lucrative operation came crashing down when a fidgety woman in a car he was in raised police suspicions she was on drugs. Inquiries showed Friar had been dealing cocaine and he was jailed for 31 months last year.
Now his case has been brought back to Newcastle Crown Court under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The court heard he benefitted to the tune of £199,833 but his available assets amount to a car worth £2,500, which is the figure he must pay back within three months or face an extra two months in jail. If he were ever to come into money in the future, he would be made to pay more of the outstanding amount.
