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School aide laundered brothel cash
A TEACHING assistant has been convicted of laundering thousands of pounds made by her husbands string of brothels. Michele Barnett, 55, a 7,000-a-year special needs teaching assistant at King David School in Prestwich, was sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for two years.
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A TEACHING assistant has been convicted of laundering thousands of pounds made by her husbands string of brothels.
Michele Barnett, 55, a 7,000-a-year special needs teaching assistant at King David School in Prestwich, was sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for two years.
Manchester Crown Court heard mortgage payments on the mums lavish five-bedroom home in Ingledene Avenue, Broughton Park, were made with cash from the brothels of her husband Ian Barnett.
Ian Barnett, 56, a former surveyor, was last month jailed for three years and eight months after pleading guilty to keeping brothels with a turnover of more than 2.5m in Manchester centre, Levenshulme and Cheetham Hill.
He also pleaded guilty to controlling the prostitution of a woman who was trafficked into this country from Lithuania by an Albanian crime gang who promised her a job as a cleaner.
Mrs Barnett was sentenced after a jury found her guilty of 10 counts of money laundering equating to just over 9,000. She was cleared of a further 14 counts.
Tina Landale, prosecuting, said Mrs Barnett must have known where her husbands money came from after press cuttings were found at their home along with envelopes full of money from the brothels with her husbands name on.
Photographs of some of the women Ian Barnett had taken to post on a website advertising the brothels had also been taken in the lounge and piano room of the family home.
Police found emails between Mr Barnett and his daughter Emma, talking about his `whores.
The couple, married for more than 25 years, had a Rolls-Royce and a Jaguar with personal plates, went on exotic holidays and lived a `wealthy lifestyle.
Miss Landale said: The brothels sold sex videos to the customers and when the police searched the house they discovered a TV continuously recording sex films and 3,000 sex videos in the house.
Michele Barnett could not have failed to notice the production of these tapes and the prosecution say she must have known what they were for.
After the case, Mrs Barnett said she had thought her husband had sold his business in 2005 and that the couple were now `estranged.
She said her husband made the mortgage payments from his bank account and she did not know the money was illegal.
Joshua Rowe, head of governors at King David School, said Mrs Barnett who was still employed by the school, was `totally committed to the well being of the children.
Her future at the school would have to be discussed with police and education authority.
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