decided that a convicted drug smuggler had used profits from her dealings to purchase a house with her grandmother.

Judy Louise Spence, 45, had all her property confiscated, including the proceeds from the sale of her house which she and her grandmother, Lavinia, had decided to sell before last week's ruling.

Spence had initially purchased the Boundary Terrace, Devonshire, property by pooling money with her grandmother. The ruling on Thursday said the proceeds from the sale of the house would be divided in half. Half will go to Lavinia Spence, because the judges ruled that she had not known about her granddaughter's drug dealing or that the house had been purchased from its proceeds.

The other half of the money, estimated at $485,000, would go to pay for the commission for the sale of the house, the remaining mortgage, and legal fees that Spence has incurred during her trial and the confiscation proceedings.

The remainder of the money, estimated at $85,000, along with what money she had in her bank account, would be confiscated.

Spence was also sentenced to serve one year for every $10,000 that she was in default, which works out to roughly six years, to be served consecutive to the time she is already serving.

Spence was arrested in February of last year following an international drug sting, which saw $500,000 worth of narcotics taken off the street.

She was caught by Police as she waited for her nephew, Comal Spence, who she had sent to pick up two bottles of liquid cocaine, outside of the Grotto Bay Hotel where she worked. Narcotics officers had set a trap for the duo after breaking up a drug ring that imported cocaine into Bermuda from Jamaica via the US.