A MAN was ordered to pay in excess of £500 after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine in St Asaph.

Ryan Jones, 26, of Clawdd Poncen, Corwen, was accused of possessing a quantity of the class A drug at St Asaph Police Station on July 30.

He pleaded guilty at Mold Magistrates’ Court on November 18.

Jones was ordered to pay a £300 fine, £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service, and a £120 victim surcharge.

This totalled £505, to be paid in monthly, £50 instalments from December 18.

The cocaine was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.