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Tilbury, Thurrock and addresses in west Essex were raided by the police

• Seized 72 kgs of cocaine and heroine • Seen 31 people convicted to a total of 366 years in prison • £1.6 million in cash Adam Lonerghan • Adam Lonerghan, 30 years of Rydal Avenue, Prescot, was sentenced to 11 years eight months for conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin. His Encrochat handle was Sickmallet Philip Dearden • Philip Dearden, 31, of Kent Road, St Helens, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin...

14 Encrochat dealers and the nicknames they used to try and avoid detection Dior Ice, Headfluffy and OrdinaryDingo were all caught out when officers hacked the secret network Left to right: Thomas Brabbins, Mark Cavanagh, Michael Burns Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your in...

Fake gun thugs and dad who battered ex while kids slept jailed in Sefton A rapist, major drug dealers, and a cowardly thug who beat his ex-partner were among those put behind bars this month Jamie LopezSouthport and West Lancs reporter Updated L-R John Garnett, James Farquhar, Ryan Thorp Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the informati...

Party boy cocaine dealer snorted his profits away in Ibiza Liam Hughes, aka BleakMoth, roped in his "Arl fella" as a chauffeur and drug courier 17:43, 25 APR 2021 Updated Liam Hughes spent thousands of pounds a month on cocaine Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your informatio...

Gang organised eye watering cocaine trade on Excel spreadsheets They shifted £8m of cocaine, heroin and cannabis in just two months 15:58, 19 APR 2021 Updated A brazen gang shifted such "eye-watering" amounts of drugs they had to document their trade on spreadsheets. The Liverpool-based crew moved 170kg of cocaine, 11kg of heroin and 290kg of cannabis, worth more than £8m in total, in the space of just two months. The crooks were so confident their EncroChat encrypted phones were "impenetr...

Five men, including one from Lancashire, have been jailed for a total of more than 55 years for their involvement in an £8m cocaine, cannabis and heroin conspiracy. In September last year police carried out a series of warrants and made a number of arrests at properties in Melling, Anfield, Huyton and Fazakerley in Liverpool as part of the national Op Venetic which targets criminality and class A drug supply. Between April 10 and June 13 2020 it is believed the men, one of which is from...