A Kings Hill drug smuggler has been jailed for seven years after failing to pay back almost £4 million.

Anthony Dymott, of Shoesmith Lane, was jailed for a total of 14 years and four months between September 2006 and December 2011 for drug trafficking, money laundering, deception and fraud.

In 2012 Chelmsford Crown Court imposed two confiscation orders requiring the 58-year-old to pay back £3.3m in ill-gotten gains.

To date he has only repaid £69,917. With interest accruing at £711.06 per day, the current amount outstanding on the orders is £3.9m.

Dover Magistrates’ Court has now imposed default sentences of seven years and four years in respect of both unpaid orders.

In addition to the confiscation orders Dymott was added to now defunct SOCA's 'Toxic List' of dangerous criminals for five years.

People on the list were subject to a Serious Crime Prevention Order, prohibiting them from certain activity.

Dymott was also slapped with a 10-year Financial Reporting Order — meaning SOCA and now the NCA can keep tabs on his finances — and was banned from being a company director for the same period.

Jon Rainer, financial investigation manager for the National Crime Agency, said: “Dymott has been involved in serious criminality over an extended period, and clearly thought he would be able to get away without paying this huge financial order. He will now have to serve another seven years, as well as still owing the full amount of the order and the interest on money owed.”