A Haverfordwest couple who dealt in cannabis were told on Friday it would cost them more than £24,000.

Gareth Husband, aged 49, and his partner Elinor Davies, 29, of Park Hall caravan park, had both admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis and today appeared before Judge Paul Thomas at Swansea crown court for a Proceeds of Crime hearing.

Francis Jones, prosecuting, said it had been agreed with the defence teams that Husband had made £33,567 and Davies £27,432.

The amounts available to be confiscated were £12,890 belonging to Husband and £11,381 of Davies’ money.

Mr Jones said the monies were either held in cash or in bank accounts and were already under the control of Dyfed-Powys police.

Judge Thomas granted the confiscation orders and said Husband and Davies would spend nine months in jail if the payments were not made.

However, he did not anticipate any difficulties as the monies were already out of their reach.

At a sentencing hearing in May it emerged that police had found £12,800 in cash hidden inside a wardrobe at Husband’s mother’s home in Simpsons Cross.

Gareth James, prosecuting at that hearing, said police executed a search warrant at the couple’s address, a caravan, on October 9 last year.

Husband was seen approaching the caravan and to throw away two small packets. Both were recovered and each contained 27 grams of herbal cannabis.

Davies was inside the caravan and on a table were “cannabis paraphernalia” along with 13 grams of cannabis resin and 23 grams of skunk cannabis.

While officers were there “a number of people” arrived and one admitted she was there to buy “cannabis from “Gareth and Eli.”

A mobile used by both Husband and Davies had a text message on it reading, “Hi mate, I’m good now. Don’t need tick.”