Dealer ordered to pay £2.1m despite assets of just £200,000

Despite police finding just £200,000 in assets, ex-public schoolboy Julian de Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson was yesterday ordered to pay back £2.1 million for his part in a drug supply operation.

De Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson was already serving a 12-year sentence for his part in supplying cocaine to celebrities and City workers as he appeared in court with fellow defendants.

Analysis of their drug supply operation showed that the gang had sold over £10.5m of cocaine and De Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson’s personal income had been £2.85m.

Referring to the amount of assets identified, Judge Mckinnon said, “This is a paltry figure when set against the length of time you have been involved in dealing class A drugs. I am satisfied you were involved in the selling of drugs in 1999 until the conspiracy was discovered in 2003. I am also sure you have assets as yet undiscovered.”

Fellow gang member, Milroy Nadarajah was given a £1,556,243 confiscation order or face a ten year extension to his sentence. James Long, the gang`s bookkeeper, was told that, although his benefit was in excess of £1m, only £118,000 in assets had been found. He was given six months to pay or face a two-year extension to his nine-year jail term.

Tom Connell was said to have earned £250,000 as the courier but only had assets of £891.85. He was given the option of paying within 12 weeks.