Wedding shop owner jailed for selling ecstasy and cannabis ordered to pay back £15,000
A wedding shop owner who was jailed last year for selling ecstasy and cannabis has been ordered to pay back £15,000.
Melanie Jayne Chirgwin , of Rhosgadfan, Caernarfon was sentenced to four years in prison last September for her peddling drugs.
She has now been ordered to pay the money under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
Today at Caernarfon Crown Court the Honourable Judge Huw Rees ordered Chirgwin to pay up within six months or be sentenced to nine months in jail on top of her current term.
Chirgwin, 37, who ran the former Mel’s Brides store in Caernarfon, was found guilty of possessing drugs with intent to supply at Caernarfon Crown Court six months ago.
During the trial Mr Recorder Jeremy Jenkins ordered for a Proceeds of Crime Investigation to be carried out into Chirgwin’s affairs.
She was first arrested after police officers carried out a search of her vehicle in August 2015 after she was stopped on Penrallt, Caernarfon.
Officers found 120 ecstasy tablets with a street value of around £380, tucked under her belt and a small amount of cannabis.
A further search found several mobile phones and sim cards.
At the time of sentencing messages on Chirgwin phone suggested that she was making as much as £1,000 a week from selling narcotics.
She even boasted in one message saying ‘who says crime doesn’t pay’, although she claimed her phone had been hacked and she had not sent the messages.
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