A dealer whose drugs led to the drowning of a 16-year-old boy in the River Dart has been ordered to repay the £20,000 which he made out of crime.

Andrew Hodges (pictured) sold a mind-altering designer drug called N-bomb which was taken by teenager Nathan Wood, who drowned after stripping off and jumping naked into the river at Dartington.

Former legal executive Hodges, aged 47, of Marldon, Torbay, was jailed for eight years and seven months at Exeter Crown Court on December 21, 2017 after admitting four counts of drug dealing and four of possession.

He was brought back to the same court under the Proceeds of Crime Act after a financial investigation into his assets.

Judge David Evans approved an agreed order in which the amount Hodges benefited was set at £20,000 and his available assets at £524,000.

He ordered him to repay the money within three months or have a further two years added to his sentence. He said: ‘This order seems utterly proportionate.’

Mr Lee Bremridge, defending, said Hodges’ assets consist of two properties and he will either have to remortgage or sell to raise the money.

Hodges is an Exeter University graduate who used his law degree to work as a legal executive for a firm of solicitors in Plymouth before becoming a drug dealer. The original case arose from a major police investigation which followed the drowning of KEVICC student Nathan in August 2016. He was given N-bomb by a friend who had bought it from Hodges.

The dealer was found with stocks of the hallucinogenic drug along with ecstasy and LSD, ketamine and cannabis.

The drugs were bought on the dark web and hidden in a false plug socket. A list of customers was found in a notebook concealed behind a microwave.

Hodges was already on a suspended sentence when he supplied the drugs which led to Nathan’s death and carried on dealing despite the tragedy and the police raid that followed it.

Nathan lived in Totnes and was a former KEVICC student. After his death his family described him as ‘full of life and loving’, and his mother Mandi Retter said the tragedy had ‘screwed up our lives forever’.