Businessman ordered to pay £500k

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A Londonderry businessman has been ordered to pay Â£500,000 after he was convicted of evading duty on the sale of cigarettes over a five-year period.

In the dock was James Christopher Kelly, 45, from Tamneymore Park in the Waterside.

He is to raise the money from the sale of eight houses.

Judge Desmond Marrinan told Londonderry Crown Court that if Kelly defaulted in his payments he would be jailed for two years.