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Essex News & Investigations

EXCLUSIVE: Drug supplier asked to unmask EncroChat kingpin thetopsking in Old Bailey trial says 'no prison is a bad place for grasses'
A man accused of helping to arrange the murder of a drugs courier using an EncroChat mobile phone device refused in court to name the...
By JON AUSTIN
5 days ago
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END OF THE HUYTON FIRM? Francis Coggins - detailed as on the run during EncroChat trial - arrested in Dutch coastal town
Francis Coggins, the suspected joint head of the Liverpool 'Huyton Firm' has been arrested in a Dutch coastal town. Coggins, age 60, was...
By JON AUSTIN
5 days ago
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Alleged EncroChat 'drug boss' James Harding 'not biological father of girl he brought up' as court also hears of 'missing messages'
Alleged drug boss James Harding is not the biological father of a girl he was bringing up as his daughter, his trial heard today....
By JON AUSTIN
6 days ago
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EXCLUSIVE: 'NCA EncroChat data sets often incomplete' - says former technical officer Luke Shrimpton during trial
Mr Decou's statement said the NCA asked in September 2020 a series of questions about how messages had been captured and stored.
By JON AUSTIN
May 7
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Alleged 'cocaine boss sent selfies from Dubai on same EncroChat phone used to arrange importations and murder plot' court hears
A British man, accused of being a "multi-million pound cocaine kingpin who organised a murder from his luxury Dubai base, sent selfies on...
By JON AUSTIN
May 2
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ENCROCHAT: Alleged Brit 'coke kingpin plotted murder from Dubai base on same phone he sent selfies on and planned family events'
A British alleged "drugs kingpin" known as "The Tops King" plotted the murder of a rival from his base in Dubai through an encrypted...
By JON AUSTIN
Apr 29
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ENCROCHAT: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh pretended to be a 'grass' over gun stash in bid for lighter sentence
The son of one of the UK's top criminals is to walk free from prison after admitting his role in an audacious plot to get his dad a...
By JON AUSTIN
Dec 12, 2024
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ENCROCHAT D-DAY: European Court of Human Rights to deliver judgement on two British users' appeals today
Two EncroChat defendants will today hear if their appeals to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), against how the UK obtained the...
By JON AUSTIN
Oct 16, 2024
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An alleged key Kinahan cartel member has been extradited to the UK to face EncroChat firearms charges
An alleged member of the international Kinahan Cartel has been extradited to the UK to face firearms charges, the National Crime Agency...
By JON AUSTIN
Oct 9, 2024
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Disgraced cop who took coke with students during Lamborghini bender will still be organised crime trial prosecution witness
A MET Police officer who avoided a jail sentence, after he hospitalised a sergeant when he tried to arrest him after a drug-fuelled...
By JON AUSTIN
May 26, 2024
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