Freed...shop girl who was Costa crook’s secret ‘moll’

A “GANGSTER’S moll” who helped one of Britain’s most wanted ­fugitives while he was on the run in Spain has walked free from court.

Gemma Harvieu wired money to her boyfriend Andrew Moran Gemma Harvieu wired money to her boyfriend Andrew Moran [CAVENDISH]

Gemma Harvieu, 29, wired cash to career criminal Andrew Moran. He had fled abroad after vaulting a courtroom dock while on trial over a £25,000 supermarket armed robbery.

Footage of the former Selfridges beautician emerged in May when Spanish police, with the assistance of British law enforcers, arrested Moran as the pair relaxed by the pool at a villa in Alicante.

Harvieu, of Chorlton, Manchester, on remand since June, switched her pleas to guilty this week at Preston Crown Court, admitting assisting an offender and money laundering. ­Yesterday she received a 12-month jail term suspended for two years.

Michael Bagley, defending Harvieu, described her ex Moran, 31, as ruthless, cunning, manipulative and charming. Harvieu admitted wiring more than £3,600 to him. Mr Bagley said: “He took in Miss Harvieu. She fell in love with him. Once in that relationship, she let herself down.”

She was ashamed, and “humiliated” at the prosecution label of “gangster’s moll”, he added.

costa, gangster, moll, most wanted, criminal, armed robbery, robber, alicante, costa del sol, mollMoran is awaiting trial in Spain next month [CAVENDISH]

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Prosecutor Wendy Chappell said: “Harvieu regularly visited Moran in Spain whilst he was unlawfully at large, holidaying with him throughout Europe and enjoying all the trappings of a luxury lifestyle from money which had no legitimate source.”

Moran, of Salford, who fled from Burnley Crown Court in 2009, was convicted in his absence of conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

He evaded arrest in Alicante a year ago when he drove through a road block. Firearms and machetes were found at his home.

Moran, suspected of being involved in a conspiracy to supply cocaine, was later arrested and is in custody in Spain awaiting trial next month.

costa, gangster, moll, most wanted, criminal, armed robbery, robber, alicante, costa del sol, mollMiss Harvieu was handed a suspended jail sentence at Preston Crown Court [PA]

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