Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News

Drug dealer to pay £200k crime cash

- BY JOHN McDOUGALL john.mcdougall@trinitymir­ror.com @JMacD1988

ADRUG dealer caught with between £120,000 and £160,000 worth of cocaine in his car when stopped in Widnes has been told to cough up more than £200,000 worth of his ill gotten gains.

Terence Bell, 37, was jailed for six years and eight months in November 2017 after admitting possession with intent to supply the class A drug.

He was initially charged by detectives from Widnes Local Policing Unit following a routine stop check

SUZI Davies of Runcorn said: “This is Chewy and Gizmo my Guinea pigs enjoying the sun.” on Cronton Lane in September 2017.

A Cheshire police spokeswoma­n said at the time that made a check on a Ford Focus and that Bell eventually stopped his car and fled from the vehicle.

The spokeswoma­n said officers gave chase and arrested him, while a search of the vehicle revealed an estimated seized value of between £120,000 to £160,000 worth of cocaine.

The force said at the time Bell was charged that a ‘significan­t amount’ of drugs were found in the back of a car by officers from Cheshire police’s taskforce.

He was sent down for a total of 80 months at Liverpool Crown Court.

Proceeds Of Crime Act (POCA) proceeding­s last month at the same court were adjourned so further work and financial investigat­ion could take place after the prosecutio­n and defence in the case could not come to an agreement regarding the case and a benefit figure for the defendant.

The court heard on that occasion Bell had a ‘number of properties’ which will have to be ‘looked at’ in terms of rentals and mortgages.

But a further POCA hearing has now taken place at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday, October 17, and Bell has been ordered to pay a total of £205,166.32.

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