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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Mark Naylor & Ashlie Blakey

The 'promising engineer' who splashed drug-dealing cash on designer bags and watches

A 'promising' engineer has been jailed after her cannabis and cocaine dealing operation was exposed.

Danielle Stafford's drug empire funded designer bags, watches and expensive holidays, Hull Live reports. The 29-year-old made so much money selling cannabis, cocaine and heroin that she was even able to buy a second home and lived without touching her salary, a court heard.

'Well-educated' Stafford tried to pretend that she was merely the victim of a shadowy Liverpool drug dealer but she could give no evidence of that. At Hull Crown Court, she was jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

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