A MOTHER who threw £10,000 of her son’s drug dealing money out of the window in a ‘blind panic’ when police raided her home burst into tears as her son was jailed yesterday.

Geraldine Bull, 63, was spared jail and handed a 12-month community order for her part in concealing evidence after police stormed her Barton home in July 2013.

Her son, Daniel Riley, 36, was told he would spend the next seven years behind bars after he was found guilty of possessing a quantity of drugs with intent to supply last month.

Sentencing at Oxford Crown Court yesterday recorder John Bate-Williams said that the defence had been ‘far-fetched’ throughout the trial and that the scale of his drug dealing was ‘very serious.’

He said: “Every day the criminal courts in this country see people’s lives ruined and I mean ruined by drugs.

“And your involvement in that would have led to more misery for those who have taken those drugs.

“You played a lasting role because you must have had close contact to the source of those drugs.

“I note your background, your good academic and trade qualities and your dedication to your wife and your family.

“And it is a tragedy that you decided alongside that to get involved in that business.”

Sentencing his mother Geraldine Bull Mr Bate-Williams said: “You may have concealed this money out of a misguided sense of loyalty to your son.

“I suspect you probably had rather limited awareness of your son’s criminal activities.”

Riley, of Laburnum Crescent, Kidlington, was convicted by a jury of seven men and five women of possessing cannabis, cocaine and methoxetamine with intent to supply last month.

During the trial, the court heard MDMA was discovered in Riley's BMW X5, along with a rucksack containing cannabis and a tub with methoxetamine in a Kidlington garage he rented for storage.

Cocaine was also uncovered in Bull's Waynflete Road home, as well as 'tick lists' belonging to Riley.

Bull took the stand during her trial, telling jurors she was saving the £10,000 to pay off a caravan in Weymouth she had bought with her husband.

Riley claimed drugs discovered at his garage were not his, telling jurors that employees from his plumbing and heating business had keys to the lock-up.

But the pair were found guilty of drug offences and concealing evidence.

Riley was sentenced to a total of seven years in prison.

Bull was sentenced to a community order of 12 months to include 150 hours of unpaid work.