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The grim living conditions of vulnerable people exploited by drug gangs has been revealed.

Tyrone Potter, who was known by the street name Nemo. A major dealer who controlled Basingstokes drug scene has been jailed. Tyrone Potter, who went by the street name Nemo, was one of the leading figures in a cartel of county lines drug networks that operated in the town. His line operated for almost three years, with links to Kingston and Reading, and was responsible for selling 10 kilograms of Class A drugs - equivalent to a street value of £1 million. Potter, 25 from Earley, Readin...

Exclusive Olamide Soyege and Terence Maccabee were jailed after the death of Taylor Williams in 2019. The men responsible for the killing of a teenager in Basingstoke were arrested and released just days before his death, it has been revealed. Olamide Soyege was convicted of murder and Terence Maccabee of manslaughter after Taylor Williams was stabbed to death at a flat in Basingstoke in August 2019. Soyege, Maccabee and Basingstoke woman Paige Taylor planned to rob the Ray county lines n...

Drug dealer Nemo sentenced to more than a decade in prison for running cartel A drug dealer responsible for the sale of £1 million of Class A drugs in Basingstoke has been jailed for more than a decade. Tyrone Kelvin Potter, who was known by the street name Nemo, was one of the leading members of a cartel that ran in the town since 2018. It operated for almost three years, including during the Covid pandemic, and used vulnerable drug addicts that lived in Basingstoke to act as a barrier...

Sales of Londons priciest properties spike 80pc as lockdown ends The supercars are back in Knightsbridge, estate agents say Demand has spiked for prime London homes in areas such as Notting Hill Credit: Alexander Spatari Sales of the most expensive homes in central London have soared as the economy reopens and the exodus from the capital reverses.  Deals in Kensington & Chelsea jumped 80pc in  the two weeks since restrictions started to ease on April 12, compared with the previous 28 days, ac...

The bus has been running every half an hour during the pandemic, having previously run every 15 minutes. Katie Cooper, from South View, is one reader who used the bus several times a week, to get from Basing View directly to the Aquadrome or Morrison’s, as she has disabilities and doesn’t drive. The 41-year-old said: “It makes things awkward. Now I can just cross the bridge and don’t have to change in the town centre. I wasn’t really travelling at peak times, but even if they ju...

Police have busted a major drugs network who sinisterly used the name of a popular Disney film. The Nemo network, which supplied crack cocaine and heroin across Basingstoke, has been brought to justice after a huge police operation into county lines. As previously reported in The Gazette, detectives were closing in on the masterminds as part of their investigation into the murder of London teenager Taylor Williams. At a separate court hearing last week, nine people from four drug networ...

POLICE have busted drugs network Nemo - and the nine dealers have been sent to prison. As previously reported in The Gazette, detectives were closing in on a county lines operation running in Basingstoke called Nemo. It came up during the murder trial into the death of London teenager Taylor Williams, who was stabbed to death by a rival dealer in South View in August, 2019. At a separate court hearing on Thursday (December 17), nine people admitted to county lines conspiracy in Basing...