Yvonne Katrina Edmond O'Brien had been sentenced to seven years in prison by Jersey's Royal Court earlier this year.

But she walked free after the Jersey Court of Appeal quashed her conviction.

Her former husband, Michael O'Brien, had his four-year prison sentence cut to one year.

Fellow defendant Michael Joseph Dunne's appeal against his conviction was unsuccessful, but his sentence was cut from nine to five years.

The original convictions followed a four-year investigation jointly carried out Jersey police and customs into what Mr O'Brien had done with the money he had made from drug smuggling in the 1990s.

Mrs O'Brien argued she knew nothing about the scam or where the money she banked for her husband came from.

Her home - jointly owned with Mr O'Brien - is still subject to a confiscation order but she has special permission to live there.