£10M DRUG BARON MUST PAY JUST £1

Court gives trafficker six months to find it

- JAMES MULHOLLAND

A DRUG dealer who made more than £ 10 million from his life of crime is to pay just £1 to settle a proceeds of crime action. 

Prosecutors and defence lawyers agreed that Mark Quinn, 59, made £10,158,678 during his involvement with the narcotics trade.

But at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, lawyers told judge Lord Arthurson that Quinn, of Liverpool, had only £1 in available assets.

Quinn, who is serving a seven-year stretch in prison, has been given six months to hand his over his £1.