Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A woman sent thousands of pounds of 'dirty money' to her gangland boyfriend who was on the run from police in Dubai.
Annie Webster, 25, wired £6,066.85 to her partner Shawn O'Malley, who was wanted by police in connection with a shooting in Bolton on September 9, 2019 when a house was sprayed with bullets, the Liverpool Echo reports.
O'Malley was suspected of organising the shooting on behalf of Warrington criminal Leon Cullen. But while he was still on licence from prison O'Malley, a well known drug dealer from Warrington, fled to Dubai.
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