The girlfriend of a murdering drug dealer who enjoyed first class travel, expensive holidays and lavish shopping trips to New York using her boyfriend's laundered money has been jailed.

Courtney Randles, 26, lived a champagne lifestyle in a luxury apartment in Liverpool while her boyfriend Christopher Kenny - now a convicted murderer - worked as a major drug dealer across the UK.

Despite earning an £18,000 salary, council worker Randles posted selfies from transatlantic flights and bragged about her shopping sprees online, posting photos of bursting Juicy Couture bags.

When police raided the couple's flat, they also found £62,000 stashed behind a bathroom mirror.

Randles has now been jailed for three years and four months after pleading guilty to money laundering and disclosing personal data without consent.

The court heard she was aware of her boyfriend's trade and tried to flee the country with him, while carrying £7,000 in her handbag. She even contacted a Euromillions winner to see if she would help launder money on the couple's behalf so Kenny could buy a Mercedes-Benz, the court was told.

Passing sentence, Judge Clement Goldstone QC said Randles was 'steeped' in her boyfriend's 'criminality'.

He said: 'You were quite willing to continue your association with a man who was not simply to your knowledge a successful drug dealer but a murderer.

'I do not consider for one moment that you were coerced, intimidated or exploited – you were greedy.'