A 43-YEAR-OLD woman who allowed a North Yorkshire organised crime group to use her bank account to launder their drugs profits should be sentenced by a crown court judge, York magistrates have decided.
Sandra White, prosecuting, said £6,615 paid into Samantha June Doyle’s bank account in Scarborough over six days in 2010 was withdrawn very quickly in Manchester, sometimes within minutes of the money being deposited.
Doyle was one of several people arrested as part of an investigation into an organised crime gang supplying hard drugs in Scarborough.
Doyle, 43, of Hesford Avenue, Manchester, pleaded guilty to money laundering and was committed for sentence to York Crown Court on April 18. She was released on bail.
Her solicitor Andrew Mawson said she was a heroin addict who had been put under pressure by a drug dealer to do as she had done.
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