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Lauren Wise & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Crack cocaine bride made £60,000 in drug money to fund lavish dream honeymoon

A woman who made £60,000 selling crack cocaine to fund her dream honeymoon has been told she only needs to pay back £300 to avoid prison.

Terrie Renwick, 29, made the huge sum to raise cash for her post-wedding celebration in September 2020.

But the bride-to-be walked into court and not down the aisle after she was found with her arm down the toilet by police as she attempted to get rid of the evidence.

She didn't escape prosecution after an officer traced the drugs through the system and retrieved a total of 220 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine from an external pipe.

The Liverpool Echo report that she had just a few hundred pounds left from the £60,000 drugs money.

She only has to pay £300 inside a few months to avoid a return to prison (Liverpool Echo)

The woman has now been told she will have to return only £300 after the court heard that she doesn't have the means to pay back the huge sum.

Renwick was on the final day of her licence period for a previous conviction of dealing heroin and cocaine when police raided her home in July last year.

Judge Brian Cummings, QC, ordered the £307.96 to be paid by Renwick inside the next three months.

She will face two weeks in prison if she fails to settle.

Frank Dillon, prosecuting at last year's sentencing, said: "It was clear these items had been flushed down the toilet by Renwick."

Sarah Griffin, defending, said: "This is an extremely sad situation.

"She was simply trying to raise funds for her honeymoon and resorted back to drug dealing in an easy way, in her mind, to raise such funds."

Renwick admitted two counts of dealing class A drugs and possession of a Taser which was found in her kitchen cupboard during the raid.

Judge Louise Brandon, sentencing Renwick in September to four years in prison, said: "You've frankly admitted you saw this as an easy way to make money.

"You've not yourself used drugs since 2017 and so this was purely a commercial enterprise."

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