Bride, 29, who earned £60k selling crack to pay for her honeymoon is ordered to pay back just £300


Bride, 29, who earned £60,000 selling crack cocaine to pay for her honeymoon is ordered to pay back just £300

  • Terrie Renwick, 29, told the court she doesn’t have the means to pay back funds
  • The Warrington woman was busted in September last year before her wedding 
  • Officers found her flushing wraps of cocaine and heroin down her toilet
  • Crown had sought £60,000 from Renwick but court ordered her to pay £300

A bride who earned £60,000 selling crack cocaine to pay for her honeymoon has been ordered to pay back just £300.

Terrie Renwick, 29, told Liverpool Crown Court that she doesn’t have the means to pay back tens of thousands because some of her lavish income was down to ‘unexplained bank transfers.’

She had been due to get married in September last year and decided to fund her honeymoon by selling class A drugs, which she says is the ‘easy way.’

But instead of walking down the aisle, Renwick’s Warrington home was raided by officers as she tried to dump packets of heroin and crack down the toilet. 

Terrie Renwick

Terrie Renwick after she was jailed

Terrie Renwick, 29, (pictured before, left, and after she was jailed) told a court that she doesn’t have the means to pay back tens of thousands and that some of her lavish income was actually down to ‘unexplained bank transfers’

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

Renwick was on the final day of her licence period for a previous conviction of dealing heroin and cocaine when police turned up and found the bride-to-be flushing the drugs.

Fortunately a quick-thinking officer traced the drugs through the system and retrieved a total of 220 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine from an external pipe.

Mr Dillon said: ‘It was clear these items had been flushed down the toilet by Renwick.’

Officers found £125 in her purse and two mobile phones which contained numbers of known class A drug addicts.

The court heard in September the drugs seized were worth a total of £2,410, but Mr Dillon explained the figure amassed by Renwick through her criminality was much higher.

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 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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