A confiscation ruling gives Digga D a repayment deadline following his cannabis case.
Digga D has been ordered to pay £201,039 under the Proceeds of Crime Act following a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court on October 21. Judge Simon Hirst gave the rapper, whose real name is Rhys Herbert, three months to pay the amount or face an additional two-year prison sentence.
BBC reporting identifies the sum as his criminal benefit. His lawyer confirmed he could pay, and the court added £2,000 in court costs.
The ruling follows Herbert’s January 2025 sentence of three years and 11 months after he admitted importing and supplying cannabis. Arrested during a livestream in February 2024, he has since been released.
The new two-year term is therefore a consequence attached to nonpayment, not a report that he has already received another immediate prison sentence. The Crown Prosecution Service’s guidance also makes clear that serving a default prison term does not wipe out a confiscation debt. Payment enforcement and imprisonment are therefore not interchangeable alternatives that allow someone simply to choose custody instead of returning the money.
His commercial profile had grown well before the arrest. Official Charts recorded his first UK No. 1 with Noughty By Nature in April 2022, when the third mixtape also led the Record Store Albums Chart, adding a physical-retail achievement to its overall chart performance.
That result followed a No. 11 peak for Double Tap Diaries and a No. 3 peak for Made in the Pyrex, tracing the West London artist’s rise through successive releases. Those successive chart results established his place within the wider commercial rise of UK drill.
