SHE enjoyed a life of the most vulgar excess, once joining her husband for a £600 chauffeur ride to Claridges for a £345 meal at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant.

But yesterday the glamorous wife of a Liverpool drugs baron was locked up for laundering his ill-gotten gains.

Former beautician Sara Shea used her university-educated husband Keith’s drug money to pay for an enviable lifestyle of luxury.

He was locked up for 15 years in 2007 for plotting to flood the streets with cocaine, while storing a deadly arsenal of weapons.

The couple married in a lavish Barbados beach ceremony – spending £12,000 on flights alone – before throwing a £6,000 homecoming at Wirral’s Hillbark hotel.

They splashed out £1,095 on dinner in the Oxo Tower – washed down with a £850 bottle of Cristal champagne.

Their love of designer watches included han exclusive Chopard, a diamond-encrusted Chanel and his 18-carat gold Rolex.

The latter cost £11,530.

Of course, no luxury lifestyle is complete without expensive cars.

The Sheas had their share of Porsches, before settling on the £110,000 Aston Martin police found when they raided their £300,000 Wallasey home, where the steam room had its own plasma TV.

The Aston was accompanied by a £46,500 BMW and a £76,000 Porsche.

In just a year, the Sheas spent £90,000 in lavish entertainment, including £5,000 on hospitality at the British Open golf and £1,000 a time hiring a box at the MEN Arena.