Care home bosses who illegally employed immigrant workers on 90p an hour have been ordered to pay back almost £500,000.

Husband and wife team Anbanaden and Shamila Chellapermal, jetted in four workers from the African island of Mauritius before making them work as “modern day slaves” in their two Worthing care homes.

The couple made their staff toil for up to 90 hours a week each at the private Carleton House care home in St Lawrence Avenue, and Glen Eden House home in Richmond Road.

They were jailed for two years each in July last year at Inner London Crown Court and ordered to pay £25,000 in legal costs, but are now out on parole.

After they were jailed, financial investigators from Sussex Police began work to identify the amount of money they earned while exploiting the illegal workers.

On Friday, a hearing took place to recover the estimated £450,000 the couple had made while employing three women and a man at the homes.

A confiscation order was made under the Proceeds of Crime Act and the couple now have six months to pay the money back, or face a further three years in jail.