A MAN who admitted trafficking in drugs including ecstasy had a three-year jail sentence halved to 18 months.

Three Appeal Court judges held that the Liverpool Crown Court judge who sentenced Andrew Haworth, 29, wrongly treated him the same as a co-accused who fought the case and whose attitude "was entirely different."

Mr Justice McCullough, sitting in London with Lord Justice Beldam and the Recorder of London, said there had been a clear distinction between Haworth and his younger co-accused.

Haworth, of School Lane, Simonstone, was a former boyfriend of Burnley WPC Elizabeth Hartley, who was jailed last year for supplying amphetamine and cannabis.

Haworth, who was jailed on June 5 last year for possession of cannabis and cocaine and the supply of ecstasy and amphetamines, had his appeal against sentence allowed.

He had been arrested in his car in August 1994 after police observed him posting drugs through the letterbox of a former girlfriend's home and her friend.

The appeal judge said Haworth had been entirely frank from the outset about his drug involvement, and had since established a reasonably successful retail shoe business with his fiancee.

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