More than £2,000 has been confiscated from a Maidstone drug dealer.

Zeno Mich-Onyibe of Chilfont Avenue, Middlesex appeared before a confiscation hearing at Maidstone Crown Court on May 17 to have his ill-gotten gains taken away under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

The 23-year-old had been jailed for one year and seven months at the same court in December last year having pleaded guilty to possession of class B drugs with intent to supply.

Officers investigating drug supply in Maidstone had arrested Mich-Onyibe at an address in Battersea where a quantity of cannabis and cash was also seized.

The £2,190 in cash discovered by the officers was ordered to be confiscated at the hearing

Detective Inspector Annie Clayton, of the Kent and Essex serious crime directorate said: "This should send a message to those who travel to Kent to deal drugs that once they have been sentenced we will continue to investigate any financial gain they have made from their activities.

"We will use the legislation that is available to seize any cash or property that we can prove they have obtained through criminal behaviour."