‘Are you sure that’s all for personal use, dear?’

The wife of a drug lord who laundered part of the cash her husband made smuggling cannabis might have to pay back £27,000, a court heard. Mandy Ashman, 56, laundered a total of £128,000 through her bank account as her husband Joseph headed a drug network based in Rainham, Essex. Ashman, 54, imported 4.5 tonnes, worth £23m, of cannabis into Britain. He was jailed for eight years and eight months in January 2015 after admitting conspiracy to supply drugs and…