A heroin trafficker who fled to Spain has been ordered to hand over £49,000 he made from drug dealing.

Jason Cleary was arrested after going on the run for more than two years before being brought back to Scotland to face criminal proceedings.

The 34-year-old was jailed for a total of 14 years in 2010 after Judge William Dunlop told him: "You are a career drug dealer."

Part of the sentence was for him failing to appear at the High Court in Glasgow in May 2007 after being granted bail on drug dealing charges by a sheriff in Greenock the previous year.

Cleary, from Greenock, was involved in the drugs trade in his home town and at other locations in Scotland between January 2005 and February the following year.

The Crown raised proceedings to strip him of any crime profits following his conviction.

His counsel, Mark Moir, told the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday that a settlement had been reached in the proceeds of crime action.

Advocate depute Barry Divers said a confiscation order should be made for £49,000 representing the "benefit of his general criminal conduct".

The judge, Lord Uist, agreed to make an order for that sum with Cleary being given six months to pay it.

His assets include his interest in properties in Greenock and West Kilbride. Cleary was the target of a police operation, codenamed Operation Rivet, which was set up to disrupt the activities of an organised crime group involved in drug supply.