Neil Tindling drug trafficker said to have made £7m from his evil trade now faces court moves to strip him of his ill-gotten gains.

On Tuesday (April 26) a Chelmsford Crown Court  judge gave the green light for a hearing which could lead to the confiscation of the assets of 35-year-old Neil Tindling, who is serving a 22-year-jail sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
A Proceeds of Crime hearing has been scheduled for June 27 in respect of Tindling, 35, of Dimsdale Close  and his wife Louise,  34, of the same address, who was given a suspended sentence at an earlier court hearing for money laundering.
However, Judge Christopher Ball QC refused to order an in-depth probe into the financial affairs of Tindling in the run-up to the hearing, saying: “He is not a drug baron nor is he a member of a crime family. But he is a drug trafficker in a major way."
When he jailed Tindling at the earlier hearing, Judge Ball described him as a "mid-ranking participant", but continued, referring to the offence with which Tindling was charged: "This was a huge importation of cocaine - one of a small handful of cases where truly significant amounts of cocaine are successfully seized.
"Sentences of those involved with such a massive importation must reflect the evil they are doing with highly addictive substances. Parties were playing for high stakes and, in Tindling's case, he lost."

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