A 65-year-old London grandma who masterminded the sale of up to £80,000,000 worth of cocaine while also collecting £50,000 a year in benefits (!) has been jailed for 20 years, with her family also receiving significant sentences for being recruited into the operation. Deborah Mason AKA ‘Queen Bee’ shipped nearly a tonne of cocaine across…
A British drug lord who racked up an £100 million+ empire after raking in £500,000 a week from selling cocaine has been jailed for at least 32 years after being brought down by EncroChat messages. James Harding, 34, was found to have plotted the murder of a rival from his luxury base in Dubai and…
A former builder who ran a £26m drug empire using the encrypted messaging network, EncroChat, has had his bid to reduce his sentence rejected. Jonathan Cassidy, who ran the cocaine operation alongside brother Jamie, was arrested at Manchester Airport in October 2020. Initially, he had fled to Dubai in June that year after learning that European law…
She’s known in her village as Deirdre the Dealer.
We’re going for a hail mary.