The drug dealer "thought he was invincible" and was trying to source wholesale amounts of cocaine only days after the birth of his...

Heroin and cocaine dealer Liam McHale trafficked millions of pounds of drugs under the pseudonym "Lawless Fly". He funded a lavish...

Heroin smuggler Anthony Bowden was a key member of a major gang run led by "Jabba the Hutt". The Merseyside-based organised crime group...

Cocaine "broker" John Cass was involved in the supply of more than £400,000 of drugs on behalf of a mysterious importer known only as...

Philip Read, who used the EncroChat handle "EducatedGoose", hid 12 kilos of heroin in a bedroom. He was also trusted to handle large...

Jacob Bullen, who stashed £10,000 of high purity cocaine in a fridge, was exposed as EncroChat drug dealer "HeroicFox". Bullen was caught...

Peter Ginley was a member of a large criminal network which worked to flood the streets with class A and B drugs. He tried to escape...

Wesley Kavanagh was busted over messages from an EncroChat device activated after the network had already been hacked. The drug dealer...

Since police infiltrated EncroChat in 2020, hundreds of users of the encrypted messaging service have been jailed after their secret...

On Thursday 9 December, Ryan Palin, of Mereworth, Caldy, was charged with conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, namely cocaine and Class B...

The court heard the group used an encrypted  communications platform to organise and facilitate the supply of 1,000kg of cocaine, 50kg of...

National Crime Agency officers have arrested two men as part of a drugs and money laundering investigation which led to the seizure of...

A man from Maidenhead was part of a drugs gang that flooded the region with a tonne of cocaine and laundered £24 million. The group has...

Whelan had been scheduled for release from prison on Saturday, Christmas Eve, but a decision to release him early, on Wednesday morning,...

Matthew Ryder KC, representing defendants, said it was completely impossible to know whether a critical meeting between Sweeting...

National Crime Agency argues that the lawfulness of surveillance warrants issued to hack the EncroChat phone network should only be...

Defence lawyers said the tribunal should completely ignore Kinnear’s submissions on the expert evidence as “they completely undermine the...

Johnathan Kinnear, representing the NCA, told the tribunal that although they were to be “taken as read”, the conclusions of the...

Defence lawyers told the court that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal had ordered the NCA to cooperate with a defence expert who was...

The National Crime Agency argued at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that expert evidence it agreed to ‘take as read’ is limited, flawed...