A FUGITIVE British boxer who was on the run for two years before being arrested in Thailand has been jailed for 14 years for masterminding a multi-million pound cocaine and ketamine supply operation across the south east. Ben Ransome, 29, (both above) sat at the top of a criminal network which organised the sale of drugs in bulk to his customer base, which included dealers linked to firearms. He was found living in luxury on the holiday island of Phuket until his arrest at a

DRUG suppliers are using "cleanskin" adults to deliver their goods in the hope it will lead to less detections by police, it has emerged. Adults with no criminal past are offered regular well-paid shifts with expenses covered inthe hopeitwill lure them into being illegal delivery drivers to drug users. Details emerged during the prosecution of Claire Young, a woman, who said she was "buzzing" to work part time "shifts" as a drug courier, instead of a standard job. She avoided

A "MANAGER" in a county lines drugs gang that peddled crack cocaine and heroin between Liverpool into Gosport and Plymouth has been jailed for six years and nine months. Danny Venning, 39, (pictured above) of Beatrice Avenue, Lipson, Plymouth, was jailed when he appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court, as the last member of the gang to be sentenced after the group was dismantled following an investigation by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary’s Northern Area Serious & Organise

THIRTY eight people have been arrested during a huge police operation across a crime-plagued part of Liverpool today. Codenamed Operation Vanguard, Merseyside Police sent a convoy of police vehicles for a series of raids in Stockbmberridge Village and Huyton today, Thursday 11 December 2025. More than 250 police officers have been conducting warrants, roadside checks, land and underwater searches and more in a "sustained and relentless offensive against criminals" operating i

A WATCH store manager who hanged himself after he was tied up during a £1.1million robbery was working in a business that was "run by Maurice Sines as a front for organised crime", a court was told. The three men accused of being involved in the audacious heist from the luxury watch store 247 Kettles, in south west London, were also warned by police their lives were in danger after a "£100,000 bounty" was placed on each of them, Woolwich Crown Court heard. The court heard the

CCTV of an "intense" meeting between the manager of a luxury watch shop and its owners, including a man convicted in the Blenheim Palace gold toilet trial, the day after a £1.1M robbery and three hours before he killed himself is missing, a court was told. Oliver White, 27, was tied up and robbed at the 247 Kettles store on May 25 2024, while uninsured watches worth over £1,160,000 were stolen, Woolwich Crown Court heard. The whole robbery was recorded on the CCTV system at t

THIS is the first picture of a former Met Police officer who has been jailed for nine years after admitting being a mole for an organised crime gang and helping crooks to move about £5 million of cash. Neil Sinclair, 62, was jailed at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, October 21 2025, after he pleaded guilty in June to three counts of misconduct in public office and two counts of entering into an arrangement to facilitate the acquisition, retention, use or control of criminal

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