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CORRUPTION AT THE AIRPORT: Heathrow security manager who used EncroChat for cocaine import plot jailed for 16.5 years
A corrupt "trusted" senior Heathrow Airport security manager has been jailed for 16 and a half years after he helped a south American...
By JON AUSTIN
Aug 4
KINAHAN CARTEL: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh ordered to hand over £1.1m or face 12 more years in prison
A DRUGS kingpin, who ran the UK arm of the "Kinahan Cartel" has been given three months to pay more than £1 million of his criminal...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 25
Albanian found on yacht used to bring migrants into UK illegally had been 'wanted by UK police for four years'
An Albanian, alleged to have been among seven people found on a yacht suspected to be carrying illegal migrants, that was intercepted in...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 22
'DO NOT LOOK AT THEM' Drug supplier who collected £4m of coke from plane warned by armed officers to stop raising head
THIS is the moment a man, who picked up about £4m (street value) of cocaine from a light aircraft, was warned to stop looking at armed...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 19
About 1.5 tonnes of weed found during probe into class A drug imports between Australia and UK
Skunk weed of nearly 1.5 tonnes and worth about £5.5m wholesale was found in the UK during a probe into drug smuggling between here and...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 16
CRIME INTERNATIONAL: Driver from Tajikstan held over guns and drugs worth millions found in Lithuanian lorry stopped at Dover
A haul of 20 firearms, 320 rounds of ammunition and 170kg of ketamine were recovered from a vehicle at Dover Port. National Crime Agency...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 28
Just day after Starmer's U-turn on grooming gangs Home Office announces NCA national probe - why didn't they launch this years ago?
JUST a day after the Labour Government's major U-turn on launching a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, it has today...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 15
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
Jun 4
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
Jun 4
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
Jun 3
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