A car dealer from Port Talbot has been ordered to pay back £82,528 after being caught with more than four kilograms of cocaine in his self-storage unit.

Wales Online reports that earlier this year, John Joseph Kear, aged 56, was sentenced to seven years and two months in prison after a police raid at MyBox Storage in Baglan uncovered a significant stash of drugs.

Officers found a 249g block of compressed cocaine with an exceptionally high purity of 84%, as well as four separate packages containing just under one kilogram each of powdered cocaine.

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