A drug dealer has been ordered to pay back more than £3,700.

Police used the Proceeds of Crime Act to make Ravinder Deol forfeit the money at a confiscation hearing at Maidstone Crown Court.

The sum was based on his available assets.

The 31-year-old was arrested in Knockhall Road, Greenhithe, on March 1 last year after officers saw him speaking to another man in a suspicious way.

It was believed they may have been buying and selling drugs.

Officers searched Deol’s silver Ford Focus at the scene and found 12 wraps of cocaine just above the brake pedal.

They were in a sock wedged into the dash, but part of it was spotted dangling loose.

A mobile phone and £85 were also found along with a £515 cash in his wallet and an iPhone.

"It is only right we pursue the profits dealers have made and return that money to the public purse." - Financial investigator Sam Holpin

Further searches of Deol’s house in Alma Road, Sheerness, turned up another sock with 33 more cocaine wraps, a stack of £1,490 bound with an elastic band and a further £720 in a chest of drawers.

In total, police seized £2,810 and 22.7g of the class A drug. One of the confiscated phones contained various incriminating text messages.

He pleaded guilty to possessing drugs with intent to supply in September and received a two-year suspended sentence and a 12-month supervision order.

Financial investigator Sam Holpin, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: “Police will continue to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to claim money back from criminals.

"Drug addiction causes so much misery to addicts and their families, it is only right that, as well as receiving a suitable sentence, we pursue the profits dealers have made and return that money to the public purse.”

Deol faces three months being added to his sentences of he fails to pay the money.