A Jamaican man has been ordered to repay £870 of the profits he made from providing a class A drugs delivery service in Croydon to the courts.

Alton Lewis, of Lucerne Road, Thornton Heath, was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to two counts of supplying class A drugs at Croydon Crown Court in May.

On Monday the 33-year-old returned to the court and was ordered to pay £870 of the money he made from drug dealing under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, which enables the courts to confiscate any benefit resulting from an unlawful act.

The money will be recovered by auctioning his car.

Lewis, who arrived in Britain from Kingston, Jamaica, in July 2001, was charged with supplying class A drugs on May 23 and was one of eight dealers arrested after a successful undercover police operation earlier this year.

Lewis, who is also known as Mark, sat motionless in the dock as the court established that the minimum income he generated from selling drugs was £113 a week.

From this Judge Simon Pratt calculated the total amount repayable is £1,356 after multiplying the £113 by 12 weeks, the length of time Lewis admitted to dealing drugs.

But Lewis will only be required to pay £870 as the only realisable asset he has is his car, meaning the remaining £486 will be written off.

Judge Pratt set a three-month time limit for the car to be auctioned and said if it was not sold in that time an extra 21 days will be added to Lewis's four-year sentence.