EIGHT members of an organised crime gang who conspired to flood Wrexham with class A drugs have been told to pay back nominal £1 sums.

Gang leader Tyrone Edwards was told to fork out £1,070 to partly recompense for the £21,461 haul of drugs and cash which were seized when the operations were thwarted by police.

Another gang member, Rhys Williams, was ordered to pay back £1,760 by a ruling made at a Proceeds of Crime Application at Mold Crown Court.

The gang were jailed for a total of 31 years and eight months last December after they were brought to book by undercover police officers using covert cameras trained on a property at Clos Owen on the Caia Park estate.

The investigation, codenamed Operation Loot, was launched after gang member Kieron Gracey turned up at Wrexham Police Station to be interviewed about other matters with thousands of pounds of crack cocaine and heroin in the boot of his car.

Police watched as drugs were supplied over the garden fence of co-conspirator Ben Coffin’s home to customers.

Prosecutor Anna Pope told the court that the confiscation payments were sums agreed on what each defendant had available and Judge Rhys Rowlands told them they had three months to pay up.

Edwards, 24, of Oak Meadows in Tanyfron, was jailed for six years and eight months.

Gracey, 23, of Overleigh Drive, Borras, received a three-year prison sentence.

Rhys Williams, 19, of Allington Drive, Wrexham, Ben Coffin, 19, of Clos Owen, Caia Park and Levi Rowlands, 10, of Cemetery Road in Rhos, were jailed for two years and 10 months.

Drug sellers Lucas Hopson, 21, of Gwenfro, Caia Park, Alex Williams, 21, of Coed Aben, Caia Park, Adam Roberts, 21, of Penyllyn , Gwersyllt and Jessica Dunmer, 23, of Hazel Avenue, Gwersyllt also all received sentences of two years and 10 months.

Corey Duckett, 18, of Gwenfro, Caia Park, received a two-year sentence suspended for two years.