A RINGLEADER of a gang who made more than £100,000 dealing drugs only has to pay back £1.

Toyn Williams, the leader of a drugs gang associated with the murder of a man in Colchester, was order to repay £1 of the £115,872 he profited from dealing Class A substances.

Williams, 29, appeared in front of Judge Christopher Morgan at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday for a proceeds of crime hearing.

Allan Compton QC told Judge Morgan Williams had no available funds to repay the court.

He said: “There is an agreed benefit figure of £115,872, the available amount is nil.

“This is not a case where there is any suggestion of hidden assets and so the crown would seek a declaration of a benefit of £115,872 with a nominal order of £1.”

Judge Morgan told said: “This brings the proceeding of crime application as far as you are concerned to an end.

“If in the future you acquire assets there could be an application to recover those assets in satisfaction of the order made today.

“The court is satisfied by agreement of the parties there is no available amount to satisfy that benefit and therefore I declare benefit in the sum of £115,872.”

Judge Morgan told the court Williams has three months to pay the court £1.

He added: “I suspect in reality for you this order will be discharged by someone on your behalf and that will be the end of the matter.”

The hearing comes after Williams was jailed for perverting the course of justice following the murder of Murdoch Brown in Colchester.

Reece McHutcherson stabbed Mr Brown, leaving him to die in the street, on May 7, 2019.

Mr Brown was attacked after he and his brother Robert arrived in the Greenstead area in the early hours of May 7, 2019.

Robert had been in debt to a drugs gang and planned to speak to someone from the gang to explain how he would repay it.

The brothers were told to go to Buffett Way, where Murdoch was then attacked.

McHutcherson, of Pillow Way, Buckingham, was jailed for life for murder, to serve a minimum of 20 years.

Williams, of Winchester Road, in London, was cleared of murder and manslaughter, but was jailed for a total of seven years and six months for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.