Drug dealer from Fareham to pay courts just £480 - despite illicit gains of £33,000
A DRUG dealer ruled to have made at least £33,325 from peddling cocaine must pay back £480 – despite being caught on camera flaunting £8,000 in cash.
Fareham drug pusher Wesley Dujon, 36, is currently serving four years in prison after a police raid at his partner’s address found £3,000 worth of cocaine in April 2017.
Officers also seized £830 in cash, scales, and seven mobile phones, along with 408 grams of benzocaine powder used to bulk up the high-purity cocaine he was selling.
This afternoon Dujon appeared before Portsmouth Crown Court via video link from HMP Winchester, with the court declaring he had made £33,325.79 from his drug deals.
But only £480 of this money will be retrieved – with the court granting three months for the payment to be made.
Addressing the drug dealer, judge William Ashworth said: ‘I accept that money is not something you can pay today as your partner has spent it on childcare.
‘You have three months to pay.
‘If you do not pay, you will serve another seven days in custody.’
Last year the same court heard how Dujon and his girlfriend appeared in a video showing off a large bundle of cash amounting to £8,350.
At his sentencing hearing, prosecutor Martyn Booth said: ‘It was drug dealing at a high level of a high amount and no doubt a high income.
‘(Dujon) got into this through an Albanian individual. There was talk about what he charged and messages between them.’
The defendant was reaping the rewards of his dealing – shown by a video of him ‘showing off’ his earnings on his phone.
‘There was a movie found showing him and his girlfriend showing off a large bundle of cash amounting to £8,350 where Mr Dujon is heard saying “boom”. He was clearly very happy about having that amount of cash,’ Mr Booth added.
The court heard how Dujon had previous convictions for violent offences but ‘curiously’ nothing for drugs apart from a caution for ecstasy in 2003.
Dujon, of Fairfield Avenue, Fareham, previously admitted supplying a class A drug.