A Liverpool crook, caught in Cumbria going the wrong way down a one way street in a car full of dirty money, has had his jail term cut by top judges.

Andrew Phillip Webb, 41, travelled from Merseyside to Workington on July 17 last year, before the car he was in was stopped by police.

Cash totalling £4,745 was found inside a coat in the boot and Webb gave police three different explanations of where the money had come from.

However he eventually pleaded guilty to possession of criminal property in relation to the dodgy cash at Carlisle Crown Court.

He was jailed for two years in July, but Appeal Court judges in London have now slashed the term to just 16 months.

The Court heard Webb, of Greenside Close, Liverpool, had first said he got the money from selling a car, then that he had borrowed it.

Finally, he said it was earnings from working as a painter and decorator.

He was disbelieved on all fronts and sentenced on the basis that the cash was connected to a drug deal.

Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said today that the money was undoubtedly criminal in origin.

But the judge, sitting with Judge Peter Rook QC, said there was not enough evidence to link it to drug dealing.

"We consider that the appropriate sentence was one of 16 months," the judge concluded, allowing his appeal.