A disgraced ex-cop hid her romance with her murderer husband - then helped him launder drugs money. Stephanie Heaps, now known as Stephanie Ramsden, has been jailed.
She met Leon 'Layton' Ramsden, 35, while he was serving life for murder at HMP Wymott in Leyland. She was working as a prison officer at the time.
Ramsden was sentenced to life, with a minimum term of 17 years in 2010 after killing Paul Gilligan, 31, at a Bolton pub. A Greater Manchester Police investigation found Heaps, 32, had links to an organised crime group associated with Ramsden, which was involved in money laundering, drug dealing and a burglary conspiracy.
She was sentenced to four years and three months at Bolton Crown Court on Thursday (July 4). Cop bosses said she had a 'brazen disregard' for the profession. READ MORE: Paedophile teacher Rebecca Joynes captured SMIRKING after buying teenage victim she was having sex with £345 Gucci belt The pair are now married.
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