A NEW Broughton woman benefited from her involvement in a drugs gang to the tune of more than £3,000 a court heard.

The Leader reported earlier this year on a multi-defendant sentencing held at Mold Crown Court following Operation Blue Kyanite; a police investigation into the supply of class A drugs in Wrexham and the wider North Wales area.

Among those defendants was 45-year-old Julie Prile, of Coed Efa in New Broughton, who was jailed for five years.

At the sentencing hearing it was said that she was in close contact with the main conspirators, and "knew full well" what she was involved in - making repeated trips from Wrexham to Liverpool.

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She appeared back at Mold Crown Court on Friday via video link from HMP Drake Hall in Stafford for a Proceeds Of Crime Act hearing.

Ember-Jade Wong, prosecuting, told the court the defendant's benefit from her criminal activities in the conspiracy had come to £3,480.93.

Judge Rhys Rowlands certified the amount, but as none of that money was available for confiscation he issued a nominal confiscation order of £1.

He also ordered that phones seized by police during the investigation be forfeited and destroyed.

Speaking on her behalf at the sentencing hearing in May, Debra White said: "It is right to say she performed a limited function under direction.

"She was directed to go to various places by those much higher up the chain than her."

 

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