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Lauren Wise & Jon Hebditch

Crack dealing bride-to-be made £60k in drug money for 'dream honeymoon'

A crack cocaine dealing bride-to-be will have to pay back just £300 after making £60,000 in drug money she wanted to spend on her honeymoon.

Terrie Renwick made a fortune selling the deadly drugs and intended to buy her dream honeymoon after her wedding.

The 29-year-old was caught but a court has ordered her to repay just £300 after deciding she did not have the means to repay the massive sum, the Liverpool Echo reports.

Engaged Renwick was hauled before a judge after being found with her arm down a toilet trying to ditch evidence while on the final day of her licence period for a previous conviction of dealing heroin and cocaine. 

Frank Dillon, prosecuting at last year's sentencing, said officers raided her home at 9.40am on July 16 last year.

Cops trawled through her sewage system and found a total of 220 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine from an external pipe.

Some £125 was found in her purse along with two phones and the numbers of known drug addicts.

Terrie Renwick made a fortune (Liverpool Echo)

The drugs seized were worth a total of £2,410 but Mr Dillon said that her criminal enterprise had netted far more.

He today explained the total amount sought in a Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) application was £60,468.98.

Mr Dillon said some of the money was as a result of "unexplained bank transfers" and added that the actual funds available to be confiscated was much less.

He told the court that cash seized at the scene and mobile phones amounted to £307.96.

Judge Brian Cummings, QC, ordered the £307.96 to be paid by Renwick in the next three months or she will face another two weeks in prison.

Sarah Griffin, defending in September last year, 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, of Vulcan Close, Warrington, 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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