A convicted drug dealer has been ordered to pay back more than £15,000.

Jacques Miles, now 47-years-old, was sentenced to 45 months imprisonment in November 2013 after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to supply.

In February that year police officers in Sevenoaks noticed Miles, formerly of Lambarde Road in Sevenoaks, was driving erratically.

They searched his car and found two wraps of cocaine and over £1,800 in cash.

They tuen searched his home address and found over 100 grams of cocaine.

Officers from Kent Police’s serious economic crime unit investigated Miles’s lifestyle and background and found that through the sale of drugs Miles had earned £15,560.50.

At a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Maidstone Crown Court on Thursday, January 8 Miles was ordered to pay back the entire amount within six months.

If he fails to he will have to serve an additional six months in prison, and still have to pay back the money.

Detective Chief Inspector Kevin Barton from Kent Police said: “This excellent result is another example of how even when an offender has been sentenced we continue to carry out further investigation.

“It is wrong that someone should be able to profit from committing crime, especially drugs offences as drug addiction causes so much misery to addicts and their families.

“We will continue to use legislation that is available to us to pursue criminals and seize any cash or assets that we can prove they have obtained through criminal behaviour.”