60-year-old Foula Pantazis has been jailed for four years for helping underworld figure Tony Mokbel flee to Greece. The Melbourne cleaner and mother of six, pleaded guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The court was told during her sentencing that her guilty plea was made not out of remorse but because the evidence against her was substantial. Pantazis, who acted along with her husband, sister and daughter, helped Mokbel sail to Greece fleeing serious drug charges against him in Australia. She bought Mokbel two mobile phones, and put the apartment he stayed in in Greece in her name and delivered a suitcase to him in 2007.

Outside the court, her family said the four year sentence was unfair. Pantazis’ sentence has a non-parole period of two years and three months.