FATHER and son drug dealers said to have made £1.5 million from pedalling cocaine in Bristol have had nearly a third of their ill-gotten gains confiscated.

Phillip Pearce and his son Justin were jailed after convictions for being at the heart of an organised drugs conspiracy that brought misery to the city's streets for years, Bristol Crown Court heard.

Yesterday, Judge David Ticehurst heard that Phillip Pearce, 58, of Airport Road, Knowle, and Justin Pearce, 30, of Summerhill Road, St George, made £700,000 each from crime.

The judge ordered Phillip Pearce to hand over his available assets of £313,678.31, and Justin Pearce to hand over his available £150,000.

Both were given six months to pay or face extra prison time in default.

The ringmaster who orchestrated the peddling of class A drugs – even after he was put behind bars – was Justin Pearce.

Operation Marin police raids in May 2007 recovered 3.5kg of cocaine, three-quarters of a kilo of MDMA (ecstasy), industrial pill-making equipment, cutting agents, heat sealing devices and other drugs paraphernalia.

A dozen packages were discovered, which contained cocaine mixed with caffeine and an anaesthetic called lidocaine, with an estimated street value of £150,000-£200,000.

Also found was a Walther PPK – a gun famously favoured by James Bond – and three rounds of ammunition.

Large amounts of cocaine were also discovered at a house on The Quays, Cumberland Road and in East Dundry Road, Whitchurch.

Pearce's sophisticated gang had also set up a factory at an industrial unit in Keynsham and a search of a van there uncovered more drugs, a rifle, face masks, mixing bowls, respirators and gloves.

Pearce was eventually locked up for a total of 20 years; his dad Philip was sentenced to 11 years; and Ben Sherwood, 27, of Bethel Road, St George, was sentenced to nine.

Pearce's brother, Jamie Pearce, 27, of Acer Village, Hengrove; Martyn Talbot, 27, of David's Road, Hengrove; James Worgan, 26, of West Town Park, Brislington; and Adam Kane, 26, of Evercreech Road, Whitchurch; were sentenced to three years apiece.

Craig Roberts, 25, of Minehead Road, Knowle, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years and Lee Muscat, 25, also of Minehead Road, was fined £1,350 for his involvement.

On August 1, 2007, Pearce's pregnant girlfriend Leah Murphy was seen going to Machine Mart in Lawrence Hill – a company which specialises in industrial and garage equipment and hydraulic presses identical to the ones found by Atrium officers.

Murphy, 28, of Airport Road, Knowle, had ordered a 15-tonne press and collected it, giving the couple's address as in The Towers, Bristol.

Cocaine that would be worth between £140,000 and £280,000 on the street was seized.

Under Operation Malsters, Murphy was jailed for seven years and a man called Julian Norman, 45, was locked up for five years.

Justin Pearce went behind bars but continued to operate his empire from prison using his mobile phone. Soon he had set up another high-value enterprise, co-ordinating the movement of large quantities of cocaine which was "cut" in Devon by a new set of deputies and lieutenants.

Dr Kirstie Cogram, the manager of Avon & Somerset financial investigation unit said the financial investigation team will continue to work to ensure the pair do not benefit from their crimes.