EVIL ‘Turbo’ Tommy Hay will only have to pay back a fraction of the fortune he made from his sex empire.
The vicious brothel keeper ran a string of prostitutes on Tyneside estimated to have brought in more than £1m.
But only £36,000 of his fortune has been discovered and seized by the authorities.
Hays was jailed for 11 years at Newcastle crown court in December after admitting a catalogue of crimes including rape, living off the earnings of prostitutes, supplying Class A drugs, blackmail, corruption, arson and criminal damage.
The 33-year-old was facing a much stiffer sentence but it was reduced after he turned supergrass and gave Queen’s Evidence against corrupt police officer Graham Brown (pictured in image above).
Brown was given a seven-year sentence after he was found guilty of accepting free sex with prostitutes in return for supplying Hays with information from the police computer and protecting him from prosecution.
During a confiscation hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, it was revealed officers had only been able to trace a fraction of Hay’s cash.
He was estimated to have earned around £1.1m from May 1999 until his arrest in October 2002.
And prosecutors wanted to establish that Hay, formerly of Birtley, Gateshead, had benefitted from the full amount.
But only the money he gave as a gift to his parents has been traced.
Hay, who at one stage was earning £6,000 a week from his racket never had a bank account and the authorities faced a stiff test trying to discover where he stashed his money.
Former prostitutes who gave evidence against him said a running total of available funds was held on his mobile phone, which at the time of his arrest read ‘73,000’.
Detectives from the Economic Crime Unit were able to trace £30,000 that he had given to his parents Thomas and Constance as “a gift”.
Interest gained since has raised the amount to £36,685.
Judge John Milford ruled the gift was a realisable asset and should be paid back. He told Hay: “You have heard what I said.
“I am ordering you to pay £36,685.10p. That is the confiscation order I make today.
“If you fail to pay it you will serve 15 months’ imprisonment which will, of course, be consecutive to the sentence you are presently serving.”