A brothel keeper who made £167,000 from her life of crime only has £822.09 to hand over to prosecutors to in a proceeds of crime action.

Boonsong Wannas,63, was ordered to hand over the sum during a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday.

She was taken to the court by Crown lawyers who wanted to seize Wannas’s ill gotten gains.

She was one of four criminals jailed for a total of 31 years last year for human trafficking offences committed in Glasgow. The mum of two communicated with the woman in her homeland and offered her work as a masseuse and prostitute.

She arranged a visa and made travel arrangements for the human trafficking victim and took her two flats in the city where she arranged for men to have sex with her for money.

The victim was in debt to moneylenders in her homeland but was told by Wannas that she owed her pounds £5,000 for air fare and the visa arrangements.

On Monday, prosecutor Dan Byrne told judge Lord Clark that both the Crown and Wannas’s lawyers had agreed that she made £167,000 from her criminal activities.

However, only £822.09 could only be recovered from her at this point in time.

Lord Clark then ordered Wannas to hand the sum over.

At earlier proceedings, judge Douglas Brown said at the High Court in Glasgow: "You were advertising for her clients, organising their attendance and arranging the sexual activity and the price.

"She felt she had no choice but to do as instructed as otherwise she would be unable to pay the pounds 5000 which you said she owed you and her outstanding debts in Thailand," said the sentencing judge.

Wannas admitted a human trafficking offence of recruiting, transporting and harbouring the woman between November 2019 and February 2020.

She also pleaded guilty to a further charge of keeping or managing a brothel at flats in the city's Cathcart Road, Linden Street, Anniesland and Charlotte Street, Calton between October 2019 and February 2020.

But following her sentencing her lawyers took a legal challenge to the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh claiming that the punishment imposed on her was excessive.

Her counsel Fred Mackintosh KC told the appeal judges: "In this case the victim came to Scotland in the full knowledge that the purpose of her visit was to carry out prostitution. There was no deception and no compulsion to come. She did not lie to get her here".

He said there was no suggestion of violence from Wannas or threats of violence.

But Lord Pentland, who heard the appeal with Lord Matthews, said the victim was "vulnerable to exploitation" as she required to pay off substantial debts to moneylenders in Thailand.

He said that an agreement that Wannas should take half the woman's earnings was "clearly unfair" and the victim was effectively trapped.

Lord Pentland said, in refusing the appeal, that exploitation of fellow human beings in the way carried out by Wannas was "degrading and deplorable”

Prosecutors can return to court if they find any more of Wannas’s assets and ask for an order to confiscate them.