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Vigo drug supplier Daniel Burrell to pay back just £100 from £64k haul

Daniel Burrell, of Ferndown, Meopham, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine
Daniel Burrell, of Ferndown, Meopham, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine

A jailed drug supplier who benefited by £64,350 has been ordered to pay back just £100.

That was the figure placed on 22-year-old Daniel Burrell's only available asset... of a scooter.

Burrell, of Ferndown, Vigo, near Meopham, was jailed for five years in April after admitting involvement in a drugs conspiracy.

His father Mark Burrell, 51, of Sylvestres, Riverhead, near Sevenoaks, was jailed for eight years.

Richard Hampson, 31, of Guildford Road, Tunbridge Wells, and 29-year-old Billy Smith, of Watercress Close, Seveoaks, were locked up for six years.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the large-scale operation featured high-purity cocaine.

Police pounced as a kilo of the drug was about to be handed over to undercover police officers for a cash payment of £53,000.

Judge Philip Statman said the purity of the drug was highly unusual and showed the dealers were close to the original source.

The offences called for exemplary sentences, he added.

A confiscation hearing for Mark Burrell was adjourned until February 18.

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