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Showing 1 - 8 of 8 results for crime type "Drug offences" & area "Mersey-Cheshire"
A Merseyside man has been jailed for more than five years after police found more than £17million worth of ketamine in the van he was driving.Paul Farrelly, 46, of Redbank Close in Fazakerley, Liverpool, was stopped by police at around 4.30pm on 16 September 2025, on the East Lancashire Road in the…
A gang of seven men involved in a conspiracy to supply cocaine and amphetamine as well as producing and supplying cannabis have been jailed for a total of more than 55 years.The men, who were all from Warrington, were arrested as part of Operation Havoc, a Cheshire Police investigation to crack…
A father and son who were involved in the large-scale supply of cocaine have been jailed for a total of more than twenty four years.Raymond Kinnear, 63, who lived in a caravan in Llangollen in North Wales and his son Nathan Kinnear, 23, of Satinwood Crescent, Melling on Merseyside were arrested on…
A group of men who diverted electricity to supply cannabis farms run by organised crime gangs have been jailed for more than 28 years.The men ran a sophisticated operation under cover of being a legitimate company, digging up roads to repair utilities.They spliced electricity mains up and down the…
The former boyfriend of murder victim Ashley Dale has been sentenced for conspiracy to supply class A drugs. Lee Harrison, 27, of Liverpool Road, Huyton, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin and possession with intent to supply cocaine on 23 December 2024 at…
Three men who were part of a plot to bring millions of pounds worth of cannabis, hidden in mattresses, into Britain have been jailed.Weiji Chen, 29, of Birchfield Road in Liverpool and John Kinsella, 34, of St Julien Drive in Liverpool, had earlier…
Members of an organised crime gang who were arrested after the UK’s largest seizure of Class A drugs have been jailed. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Guy Remington, 48, from Hereford, Luke Hirst, 37, of Deeside, Thomas Smith, 41, from Liverpool and Morgan Towner, 47, of…
A drugs and firearms dealer, who was involved in the shooting of another man within yards of children leaving a primary school, has been given a 29-year sentence.
John Lewis, 23, of Parliament Street in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, was sentenced (28 September 2023) at Liverpool Crown…
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To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
