A COUPLE who mis-sold mattresses, beds and mobility equipment to elderly people have been ordered to hand back nearly £1 million from their ill-gotten gains.

Paul Wray, 51, and his wife Clare, 38, are currently serving prison sentences after they were brought to justice by a York-based specialist trading standards squad.

At an assets confiscation hearing at Leeds Crown Court, they were ordered to pay £917,287 within three months or face an extra six years in prison.

Recorder Abdul Iqbal QC also ordered that the Wrays’ victims be awarded £20,757 compensation from the money. The rest will go into the public purse.

Paul Wray, of Clayton Wood Close, Leeds, is serving 28 months and has been disqualified from being a company director for nine years.

Clare Wray, of the same address is serving 12 months and is banned from being a company director for seven years.

They were convicted of commercial crimes committed through their company Dreamwell Ltd, of which he was company secretary and she was the only director. More than 50 of its customers complained about its staff’’s selling tactics.