Rolexes, a jacuzzi and a walk-in wardrobe - these drug dealers led lives of luxury

It's said that crime doesn't pay. But for some, law-breaking is lucrative. Designer watches, expensive house improvements, high end clothes and cash are just some of the spoils Greater Manchester criminals have enjoyed from a life of crime.

But profiting from misery comes at its own price for underworld operators - years in jail before Proceeds of Crime Act hearings strip them of their ill-gotten gains.

Here are just some of the dealers whose expensive tastes cost them their freedom.

Despite being unemployed, Remi Merriman had expensive décor in his house, designer clothes, four Rolex watches and expensive bikes. His luxury lifestyle was the product of a cocaine and heroin business, which he operated with another dealer who was using an illicit mobile phone while behind bars.

Merriman worked with 'commercial broker' David Mulligan, who was serving a 17 year prison sentence. Messages recovered by police revealed how Merriman was offering ‘wholesale’ amounts of cocaine and heroin to Mulligan, who was running his own separate drugs line from behind bars.

A ‘snapshot’ of the messages over a seven-week period revealed that Merriman organised the sale of 1.82 kilos of heroin worth between £72,000 and £109,000; and 2.33 kilos of cocaine worth between £116,000 and £166,000. Last month Merriman, 35, of Cambourne Road, Hattersley, was jailed for 12 years after admitting conspiracy to supply drugs and two counts of conspiracy to convey an article into a prison.

Mulligan, 32, of HMP Garth, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply drugs.

Hussain had virtually no money in his bank account, earned 'very little' from three car businesses he owned and did not own a house. Yet within his home