A mum involved in a staggering £2m County Lines plot was ordered to pay back her ill-gotten gains.
Patricia Massingham, of Sudland Road, Everton, was one 18 gang members involved in an "industrial" and "nationwide" network stretching from Liverpool to parts of North Wales, Cornwall and Scotland.
The 51-year-old appeared before Mold Crown Court earlier this week where she was told to pay back just under £5,000, North Wales Live reports.
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The mum-of-four is currently serving a jail term of four and a half years for her role in a plot to flood Flintshire with hard drugs.
North Wales Live reports Massingham was sent to prison back in September 2020 after Operation Tide busted a county lines operation covering several parts of the UK.
Massingham was responsible for supplying heroin, cocaine and amphetamines with the gang fronted by Colin Jones along the Echo line between January 1, 207 and September 6, 2020.
The Merseyside operation saw the supply and distribution mainly in the Deeside area of North Wales, using their Liverpool and Manchester connections.
Earlier this week, Judge Niclas Parry heard the gang's total benefit was given as almost £1.85m, but Massingham had an available amount of £4,950.
Just Parry accepted this and ordered her to make that payment within seven days.
If ignored, a further three months will be added to her current jail sentence.
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