Overview
- Liverpool Crown Court sentenced the 60-year-old after he admitted importing and supplying heroin and cocaine tied to the gang’s wholesale operations.
- Dutch police identified him in June after finding him drunk in Zandvoort, leading to his extradition in August and guilty pleas entered in September.
- Prosecutors said he ran European sourcing from the Netherlands and moved at least a tonne of Class A drugs to the UK using UPS waybills, genuine company accounts and a corrupt Deeside depot worker.
- EncroChat evidence linked his handles “TallCanine” and “MixedJet” to messages with his brother “MoonLitBoat” about shipments, pricing and cash flows including £880,000 collected in two weeks and roughly 350kg supplied over three months in 2020.
- Operation SubZero sentences now exceed 170 years, with co-leader Vincent Coggins serving 28 years for drugs and blackmail, and detectives seeking Francis Parker, 40, believed to be abroad.