Thomas Carroll's sentence is extended over prostitution fund

A man who ran an international prostitution ring has had his jail sentence extended after refusing to hand over £1.9m from his crimes.

Thomas Carroll from Castlemartin, near Pembroke, was jailed for seven years at Cardiff Crown Court in 2010 after being found guilty of controlling prostitution and money-laundering.

Last month the brothel boss was also ordered to give up his criminal gains.

A 10-year sentence was invoked after he failed to meet Friday's deadline.

A judge at Cardiff Crown Court granted the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) a confiscation order for £1,902,496 against Carroll, warning him an extra 10 years would be added to his sentence if he refused.

Carroll, originally from Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, in the Irish Republic, will continue to owe the outstanding amount with an additional £416 per day, accruing in interest.

His assets include four houses in Wales, three houses in South Africa and four cars, including two Mercedes.

He fled to Wales to avoid prosecution when he was quizzed by Irish police over his network of brothels.

He continued to run the business from a rented house in Castlemartin with his partner, Shamiela Clark, 33, and his 27-year-old daughter Toma Carroll.

Both women are also in prison for their roles in running the prostitution network, which involved trafficking Nigerian women into Ireland and forcing them to work as prostitutes all over the country.

The three were convicted in February 2010 after an international investigation.

Judge Bidder QC ruled Carroll's assets, including multiple properties, were purchased with the proceeds of crime and that he was prepared to squirrel them away in properties abroad.

The court previously heard one room in the house in Wales was a dedicated call centre where they co-ordinated their clients' calls - receiving up to 300 in any one day for all their brothels throughout the UK and Ireland.

Some women, mainly from Europe, were recruited through advertisements on the internet and through publications in the UK.

Others from Nigeria were trafficked into the UK believing they were escaping to a better life. They were told they would be educated and become hairdressers or seamstresses.

Last year, Clark was sentenced to two and a half years for conspiracy to control prostitution and one year for conspiracy to money laundering, to run consecutively.

A confiscation order was also granted against her for £360,000. A default sentence of three years imprisonment was imposed.

Meanwhile, Toma Carroll was jailed for two years for money laundering.

The court had heard that, from 2002, increasing amounts of money were deposited into her bank account.

In 2006, £96,000 was deposited, in 2007 £977,000 and in 2008 £432,000.