A university graduate with a penchant for luxury secretly funded her lavish lifestyle of designer handbags, foreign holidays and second homes by selling heroin, cannabis and crack cocaine
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Nadim Bashir, prosecuting, detailed how police recovered text messages from her phone that saw her directing another woman to deal cannabis in her absence. "Make sure he pays," reads one of the messages she sent. Top news stories today But police searched her and the car and recovered bags full of cannabis worth over £1,300. As Stafford was taken to the police station, her phone lit up with calls and messages and she was seen "fidgeting" with her jogging bottoms.
She bought her home in March 2016 for £124,999 – and another home in Hull. "Again, evidence of an additional cash stream income," said Mr Bashir.