FOUR men at the Swindon end of a major drugs ring have been ordered to hand over more than £9,000 made from their crimes.

A fifth was today facing a hearing to decide how much money he should hand over.

The men were among seven people jailed last December for a total of 37 years at Bristol Crown Court.

Vincent Gibbs, 38, of Croft Road, Old Town, who was jailed for seven years, was the driving force behind the gang.

He was due to appear before trial judge David Ticehurst at the same court today, for a hearing to decide how much of his disposable assets must be forfeited.

Last year's trial heard he was in charge of a Swindon operation shattered in a police raid on the car park of the Spotted Cow pub in Coate Water in February 2002. Cannabis resin with a street value of £164,000 was seized and a large amount of money was recovered in later raids.

Gibbs admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and cannabis resin.

Yesterday, at Bristol Crown Court Gibbs' lieutenant William Living-stone, 36, of Lyndhurst Crescent, Park North, currently serving six years imprisonment for his involvement, was ordered to hand over £721 or face an extra 28 days in jail.

Mark Kirwan, 42, of Farrfield, Upper Stratton, serving six-and-a-half years after admitting to conspiring to supply cannabis and being convicted by the jury of conspiring to supply cocaine, was ordered to hand over £1,220 or face an extra 45 days' jail.

The other members of the gang were Richard Brinsdon, 34, of Penhill Drive, described in court as a "fetcher and carrier", Craig Wanless, 27, of Bradon Court, Penhill, and married couple Roy and Winifred Butler, aged 58 and 54, from Bermondsey, London.

All were found not guilty of conspiracy to supply cocaine but admitted supplying cannabis and are serving sentences ranging from four to five years.

Yesterday at Bristol Crown Court Brinsdon was ordered to hand over £4,764 or face an extra three months in jail and Wanless was ordered to hand over £1,310 or serve an extra 45 days. The Butlers were each ordered to hand over £30,005 or serve an extra 18 months.

Before passing sentence last December Judge Ticehurst told the gang: "Drugs corrupt and destroy the lives of far too many people."

The trial heard that in 2001 the police suspected Gibbs and Livingstone headed a local organisation distributing drugs in and around Swindon.

The force launched Operation Daisy, and observation and electronic surveillance revealed the drugs were coming in from London.