A DRUG baron, jailed for 10 years for dealing misery on a massive scale, benefited from crime to the tune of £1.5m, Maidstone Crown Court was told.

Rodney Goodman has been ordered by a judge to hand over £360,016 or face a further three years behind bars.

A court was told that it was the amount recoverable from the 54-year-old, of Abbey Wood, South East London.

Goodman was appearing for confiscation proceedings with greyhound trainer Derek Sankey, 58, of Tanglewood, Rhododendron Avenue, Meopham, near Gravesend.

Sankey, said to have dished out drugs like sweets from the den at his home, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in June last year.

Goodman, when arrested, had more than £200,000 in bank accounts, £101,000 in a shoebox under his bed and a villa in Alicante, Spain. Sankey had more than £141,000 in building society accounts.

The prosecution told how cocaine was dealt from the house on a massive scale, with a turnover of at least £231,000 over 231 days.

Sankey would have made a minimum of £58,000 over nine months. More than 7,500 drug users were estimated to have visited the house.

The £1.5m and £360,016 figures for Goodman were agreed by both the prosecution and defence.

Judge Jeremy Carey said he would allow Goodman the maximum of six months to pay the recoverable amount. It was open to him to request an extension of the period.

The judge reserved his decision to a later date on the amount to be recovered from Sankey. Tanglewood and surrounding land was valued at £250,000 to £350,000.