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They used £41k in cash to buy a caravan at Skipsea
Louis Taylor-Broadfield admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine and possessing a prohibited weapon(Image: Humberside Police)
Couple who made nearly £700k from crime ordered to pay back less than £70k
- A drug dealer involved in a lucrative County Lines drugs operation in Bridlington benefitted, along with his girlfriend, by a total of more than £689,000 from the dodgy activities.
- A £62,000 caravan was bought using £41,000 of cash that they knew or suspected was the “money laundering” proceeds of criminal activity over a long period of time.
- During a police raid, a “huge amount” of high-value designer clothes was found as well as a blank-firing pistol and a cash-counting machine, Hull Crown Court heard.
- Louis Taylor-Broadfield, 32, admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine at Bridlington between November 1, 2022 and September 26, 2023 and possessing a blank-firing pistol as a prohibited weapon. He and his girlfriend, Tiffany Archer, 33, admitted possessing the proceeds of criminal activity, a caravan at Skipsea.
- At a hearing in January last year, Taylor-Broadfield was jailed for five years. He was, however, released shortly afterwards because, at the time, he had been in custody on remand since September 2023. Archer was given a one-year suspended prison sentence, with no requirements.
- The case resurfaced for a proceeds of crime confiscation hearing. Holly Clegg, prosecuting, told the resumed hearing that the agreed benefit figure for Taylor-Broadfield from criminal activity was £393,752. The agreed figure for Archer was £293,801.
- The amount of money that Taylor-Broadfield, formerly of Scarborough but recently of Barrington Parade, Gomersal, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, was said to have available was £22,750. The amount for Archer, of Ashlar Drive, Eastfield, Scarborough, was said to be £44,494.
- They were each ordered to pay the money within three months. If they do not, the default prison sentence that could be imposed was eight months for Taylor-Broadfield and 14 months for Archer.
- You can read the full details of the case here: Couple who made nearly £700k from crime ordered to pay back less than £70k
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