A prolific drug dealer who blames his life of crime on discovering Jamie Bulger’s murdered body at the age of 13 has been jailed again.
Career criminal Terence Riley was just 13 when he and his brother found the two-year-old’s body on a railway line in 1993, which he attributes to falling on the wrong side of the law.
The self-confessed ‘scumbag’, now 37, was jailed for 12 years in 2009 after being extradited from Holland to face justice over a £4million drugs conspiracy.
Terence Riley (left) and his brother stumbled across the body of James Bulger (right) in 1993 on a railway line. Riley has now been jailed for leading police on a high speed chase
And now he has been sent to prison again for money laundering, according to The Mirror.
Riley was arrested on December 16, 2016 after police became suspicious on seeing him in a taxi in Norris Green and when searched they found a significant amount of cash in his pockets.
Chris Taylor, prosecuting, said officers then went to search his then-home in Litherland and found more cash, a Rolex watch and the keys to a valuable Audi motor car which was parked nearby.
The total amount of money recovered was £33,334 and combined with the £2,500 watch and the £15,000 Audi the value of the seized items was £50,834, he said.
When interviewed 38-year-old Riley, of Boundary Street, Vauxhall made no comment but went on to plead guilty to money laundering.
He was jailed for 12 years in 2009, after being extradited from Holland to face justice over a £4m drugs conspiracy and he has been recalled to continue that term after dangerous driving and other associated offences for which he was jailed in April last year for 12 months.
Riley has failed to pay back £30,000 drug dealing profits and was jailed for 18 months for that failure in 2010.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today that the cash seized in his latest offence will now be used to meet that bill.