A man and woman who were running a £100,000 drugs den around the corner from a primary school have each been ordered to hand over just £1.

Toby Boswell and Nicola Measor, who are both 44, were each found to have benefitted from crime to the tune of £56,218.50p.

But at a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime a judge was told that neither had any realisable assets so made the order for a nominal payment.

Claire Marlow, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court that the figures had been agreed with defence lawyers.

Judge Peter Blair QC ruled that they had benefitted from crime by £56,218.50p and gave them seven days to hand over the money or face a week in custody.

The order means that should they come into money in the future the authorities can pursue them for the remaining cash.

The pair, who are friends from the pub trade, had been tending cannabis plants which were being grown inside a three bed semi on an upmarket Old Town street.

But they were spared jail after a court heard they only got involved in the skunk growing operation after getting in hock to loan sharks.

Residents in Hesketh Crescent had contacted police in November 2013 with their suspicions about what was going on at the house.

They also passed on details of a black Peugeot, which police later stopped with father-of-three Boswell at the wheel.

In the car was a suitcase and crate which both smelled strongly of cannabis and police then went to the house with keys they found on him.

Inside they found a cannabis factory with plants in various states as well as flowering heads as well as his co-defendant, whose clothing was covered in bits of cannabis plant.

When they spoke to Measor, who also has three children, she said 'I'm just helping out. I just wanted some extra cash for Christmas.'

A total of 93 small cannabis plants were growing in the 'fairly professional operation' and there was more than 4kg of harvested skunk.

The potential value of all the drugs, the street value, was said to be between £77,000 and £102.670.

Boswell, of Arnolds Way, and Measor, of Dyer Street, both Cirencester, each admitted production of cannabis.

Each was sentenced to 12 month jail terms suspended for two years with 200 hours of community service.