A former nanny to the children of Pink Floyd star David Gilmour claimed today she had no idea her partner of 20 years was an international cocaine baron.

Anni Rowland, 52, is accused of acting as PA to drug dealer Kevin Hanley - counting and laundering his cash from her home in the picturesque town of Stow-on-the-Wold.

Hanley, 53, a former grocer, was jailed last year after admitting smuggling millions of pounds worth of cocaine in shipments of watermelons, pomegranates and broccoli.

But his former partner - whom he met at a lavish bash thrown on her behalf by her rock star employer - today insisted she never had anything to do with drugs.

Anni Rowland, left, 52, is accused of helping former partner Kevin Hanley, right, 53, run a drugs operation but claims she never had anything to do with illegal substances

When asked about her globe trotting lifestyle with the Gilmour family, she said: ‘I was looking after four children.

‘I was on-call 24 hours a day - it certainly wasn’t party, party, party. I was going to concerts and things like that but I was staff.’

She told the Old Bailey she had met Hanley at her 30th birthday in 1992, which had been held on David Gilmour’s 1920s houseboat on the Thames.

She said there had been over 300 guests, because she had a joint party with the daughter of the Deep Purple keyboard player, Jon Lord.

Prosecutor Richard Jory QC asked: ‘What was Mr Hanley doing for Pink Floyd? Supplying them fruit and veg?’

She replied he had only been introduced to her as ‘Kevin’ and she’d been told he was a friend of a friend.

Rowland denied knowing her boyfriend was a drug dealer, even though he was jailed for supplying cocaine in 2001.

She herself was jailed in 2006 for helping him stash the cocaine in a safe house in the New Forest.

In evidence today she repeatedly denied any involvement in the 2006 charge, claiming she only pleaded guilty so she could get back to their young son as soon as possible.

Rowland insisted Hanley and ‘stripped her of her confidence’ and ‘twisted everything’.

Rowland is a former nanny to the children of Pink Floyd guitarist and co-lead vocalist David Gilmour, pictured

‘It’s only after I’ve been arrested that I’ve been furnished with all this information and I’ve found out it’s all been lies.’

‘He said he was in fruit and veg and he’d been set up and it was nothing for me to worry about and we argued and argued.’

‘He would convince me. He just had this ability to twist things and I would end up apologising.

‘And it’s in all the [legal] papers and he still denies it - not that I’ve spoken to him for more than two years, but he still says he was stitched up..

‘I stopped believing when I read everything that was in those papers, but then he would still come up with something feasible and I would still believe him.

‘I just feel very stupid and hurt. I stopped all contact with him.’

She said that Hanley would always promise to make things up to her, and told her that he would quit the ‘fruit and veg’ industry and they would have a pub in the country.

‘He stripped me of my confidence. He always told me that no one would love me like he loved me and no one would love me because I’d been in prison.’

‘He always had all the lies and I wanted to believe him. All this - it’s all been a lie. Twenty years of a lie.’

‘I never agreed with anyone to supply anything,’ she said.

‘I was counting money that I thought was legitimate money from fruit and veg. So yes I counted money, but I never laundered any money.’

‘I kept everything relating to him for years. It was my shrine to him. It was so stupid,’ she said.

‘What was Mr Hanley doing for Pink Floyd? Supplying them fruit and veg?’ Prosecutor Richard Jory QC

After his release from prison for the 2001 cocaine charge, Hanley set up two shell fruit and veg companies - ICC 2009 Ltd and Paris Western - to act as a front for his drug ring.

But investigators found that he hadn’t declared a penny of legitimate income to HMRC.

His empire was smashed by the National Crime Agency after a massive surveillance operation which included bugging his home in Fulham.

He was juggling two women - Rowland and glamorous Greek television presenter Chrysi Minadaki, 45, who has also been jailed for her role in the conspiracy.

Minadaki would travel with him all over the world to negotiate the drug deals, while Rowland was busily organising his flights and his accommodation.

She would also transfer him large sums of cash for his business dealings, it is said.

Today, she said she never knew exactly where he was or who he was with and would always give her a feasible explanation of why he needed cash, flights or hotels.

When asked about Chrysi Minadaki she said: ‘It was the first time I met her.. She was really rude.

'In my head she was this beautiful Greek goddess and she wasn’t and I apologised to him for accusing him of anything.’

Rowland told the Old Bailey, pictured, she was simply counting money she believed ex-grocer Hanley obtained legally through his fruit and veg dealings

She described her love rival as ‘A woman with a beard’.

Officers raided the Chelsea home of co-conspirator John Fowler, 58, on November 24, 2012, and recovered £2m in cash, around £2.5m worth of top grade cocaine, £100,000 of amphetamines and £61,000 of skunk cannabis.

Prosecutor Mr Jory said the drugs ring involved dozens of people across the world and was ‘well planned and well organised’.

Rowland commuted with her son between the Cotswolds town and London, the Old Bailey heard, while Minadaki had a plush flat in Cadogan Square in Westminster.

Mr Jory said: ‘Ms Rowland booked flights and accommodation for Hanley and Fowler around Europe.

‘She made charges for payment where money became due. She arranged for the transfer of money to Hanley when he needed it, for example when he was travelling abroad.

She was a woman with a beard Anni Rowland on her love rival

‘She occasionally attended meetings with him and was present with him in September 2014 when the prosecution say there was a decision made that was picked up on a secret listening device about drug arrangements and procedural matters.

‘Her finger prints were found in due course on items, including the £2 million in cash.

‘There were also writings and notes indicating that she was familiar with cash - perhaps counting the cash and making a note of the quantities stored at Mr Fowler’s address.

‘It appears to be, at least at one stage, a safe house for cash and property in this criminal conspiracy.

Rowland, of Stow-on-the-Wold, Cheltenham, denies conspiracy to supply cocaine, amphetamines, cannabis and money laundering.