Couple who made £1m from cocaine told to repay £14,000

A pair who made £1million from cocaine blew £40,000 on a marriage whereas claiming advantages have been ordered to repay simply £14,000.

Carl and Donna Honey-Jones from Swansea used their drug dealing empire to fund a lavish life-style of holidays to Dubai, the Maldives, Florida and Mexico.

The couple additionally purchased luxurious automobiles with personalised numberplates and spent £40,000 on the marriage - with a horse and carriage - whereas nonetheless claiming advantages.

Wrongdoing: Carl (left) and Donna Honey-Jones (proper) from Swansea used their drug dealing empire to fund a lavish life-style of holidays to Dubai, the Maldives, Florida and Mexico

Particular celebration: The Honey-Jones couple spent £40,000 on a marriage - with a horse and carriage - whereas nonetheless claiming advantages

Bundles of money: The drug community was dismantled after officers executed search warrants at 11 addresses throughout Swansea in 2014 - and tens of 1000's of kilos of money was discovered

Jetset lifetyle: The pair lived a lavish life-style - jetting off on journeys to the Maldives, Florida and Dubai. Above, they're pictured on the Atlantis Resort in Dubai

They had been sentenced in 2015 together with different gang members and have now been ordered to pay again £13,818 of their ill-gotten good points in entrance of Choose Paul Thomas.

The decide informed Carl: 'You had been the vendor principal and in your case it financed an extravagant life-style of overseas holidays, a lavish wedding ceremony and luxurious automobiles.

'The sums concerned had been within the seven figures and also you had been on the very prime of that conspiracy. Though it was was profitable, the operation that you just led was inept.'

A proceeds of crime listening to at Swansea Crown Court docket heard Carl had benefited £1.1million from the medicine ring - however the one out there funds he has now £9,680.

Automobile: The couple purchased luxurious automobiles with personalised numberplates - together with this Audi

Distinctive: The personalised numberplate H009 NEY was purchased by the Honey-Jones couple

Money seized by police: Cocaine with a possible avenue worth of as much as £750,000 and nearly £60,000 money was seized in a police operation into the drug community

His spouse was stated to have benefited to the tune of £39,000 - she now has £three,958 to her title. Court docket orders had been made to confiscate the out there money from the couple.

Carl, 33, whose operation was billed 'amateurish' by the decide, was the pinnacle of the gang which trafficked giant portions of cocaine from Liverpool on the market in Swansea.

He's serving a nine-year time period for conspiracy to produce medicine and cash laundering.

Donna, 34, was given 21 months suspended for 2 years and was ordered to do 300 hours of unpaid work after pleading responsible to cash laundering.

Carl, pictured with Donna on their wedding ceremony day, is serving a nine-year time period for conspiracy to produce medicine and cash laundering

Donna, 34, was given 21 months suspended for 2 years and was ordered to do 300 hours of unpaid work after pleading responsible to cash laundering

At their wedding ceremony: Court docket orders had been made to confiscate the out there money from the couple

Title playing cards: The couple's wedding ceremony in 2013 got here two years earlier than their sentencing in 2015

The drug community was dismantled after officers executed search warrants at 11 addresses throughout Swansea in November 2014.

Cocaine with a possible avenue worth of as much as £750,000 and nearly £60,000 money was seized within the operation - together with costly jewelry, automobiles and quad bikes.

Ian Wright, who prosecuted within the authentic instances, stated on the time that the Honey-Jones couple had been 'dwelling the high-life' on the income from the cocaine commerce.

He stated they'd an expensively adorned home, overseas holidays, automobiles with personalised plates, overseas holidays and different proof of 'luxurious dwelling'. 

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