THREE men who admitted stealing £160,000 worth of computers from schools across Essex and Suffolk have no more than £3 left between them, a court has heard.

Specialist financial investigators failed to identify any assets owned by Christopher Kerr, Francis Wilding and Liam Cook, who targeted 56 primary schools and colleges.

They were jailed in July, but returned to Ipswich Crown Court on Monday for a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing designed to recoup as much as possible of the value of what they stole.

Each man was ordered to pay a nominal £1.

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