A mum who sent over £6,000 to her drug dealing boyfriend in Dubai has been spared jail and told to pay back just £150 instead.
Annie Webster, 26, wired £6,066.85 to her then boyfriend Shawn O'Malley, who was on the run from police in Dubai in relation to a gangland shooting, the Liverpool Echo reports.
O'Malley, a well known drug dealer from Warrington, was linked by police to a shooting in Bolton on September 9 2019 when a house was sprayed with bullets. READ MORE: Two teenagers GUILTY of murdering vulnerable 'cuckooed' drug addict who feared he'd be killed by gangsters He was jailed for 18 years at Liverpool Crown Court in September, following the shooting which he organised on behalf of Warrington criminal Leon Cullen.
His prison sentence also related to the torture of two men at a remote cannabis farm, where he tied, beat and threatened them with weapons including a pick axe and sledge hammer.
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