A drug dealer who stamped his cocaine haul with the Batman logo is to lose all the cash he was nabbed with.

Railway maintenance supervisor Jamie Cass, 33, was caught with slabs of the Class A drug with a street value of £500,000.

Border officials also found him with thousands of pounds in cash in a remote control-operated hidden compartment behind the back seat of his car.

In total, five kilograms of the drug were found in the footwell of his VW Passat after police found him loading bags into the vehicle in James Street, Gillingham.

Now, following a financial investigation by police, a judge at Maidstone Crown Court has ruled his benefit from his drug dealing amounted to £219,380.

A search of an address in the town which Cass had been refurbishing resulted in the discovery of a Tesco carrier bag containing cash.

Judge Julian Smith said that the cash, seized by police and totalling about £42,000, should be confiscated and Cass now has three months to hand over a further £500 from the sale of a quad bike - or face another nine months inside.

In May last year at Maidstone Crown Court, Cass, of Woodlands Road, Gillingham, was sentenced to six years in prison having previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and possession of criminal property.

At his sentencing hearing, prosecutor Tom Dunn said: "The blocks contained high purity cocaine, each weighing just under a kilo with purity ranging between 82 and 89%.

"The street value for high purity cocaine of that quantity would be £500,000."

The dad-of-two claimed to be a courier who was paid £4,000 for each delivery and said he got involved to tackle debts of £10,000.

Passing sentence, the judge said: "He was more than a courier. He was performing the role of courier at the time he was arrested but he was higher up the chain than that.

"This was professional crime. This was a conspiracy to supply a large quantity of cocaine which would have netted a not inconsiderable sum of money.

"The fact it was between 82 and 89 per cent purity demonstrates it was near to the original source of supply."

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