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Drug dealer caught out by picture of own driveway
A prolific drug-dealer was caught out after sending pictures of his own driveway in Liverpool over the supposedly secure ...
Drugs gang trio from North Shields and Sunderland jailed for more than 20 years for cocaine plot
Darren Gilmore, Carl Stewart and Benjamin Porter are the latest drug dealers to be locked up after police smashed the ...
Crimefighting chiefs feared police leak would destroy Encrochat probes that snared Scots gangsters
A LEAK threatened to compromise the National Crime Agency‘s Encrochat probe that went on to snare scores of Scotland’s most ...
Taxi driver wanted to 'get busy' but now he is being 'eaten away by remorse'
The dad spoke of harming another dealer and stealing his stock while trafficking heroin, cocaine and cannabis using the ...
Operation Dark Phone: What was EncroChat and how was the mobile network used to take down gangs?
A NEW Channel 4 documentary will tell the story of a gripping international investigation into the criminal plans made via a messaging platform. Channel 4 aired the first episode of the ...
Murder by text: How police hacked an organised crime group chat
Your modern-day top-tier criminal is far from the Great Train Robber figure of yesteryear. Nowadays, they’re tattoo-festooned ...
Operation Dark Phone: What is EncroChat and how did the National Crime Agency take it down?
A new Channel 4 documentary will tell the story inside the investigation - the ECHO explains what EncroChat was ...
Son of The Farm's singer jailed for £1.3m drug supply
The son of the lead singer of the band The Farm has been jailed for running a drug operation which spanned the UK. Police ...
Inside horrifying underworld torture chamber criminals used until bombshell discovery was made
A horrifying underworld torture chamber was used by criminals in the Netherlands until a huge discovery explored in a new ...
He shared a photo of some M&S cheese - now he's in prison for 13 years
More than 200 murders have been stopped since the secret network EncroChat was busted by the National Crime Agency, a top ...
Top cop on EncroChat case tells how 'busting the network might have helped stop 200 murders'
When French and Dutch experts cracked the code for the EncroChat network, Britain’s National Crime Agency launched Operation ...
Corrupt police worker exposed by 6-word text message
The EncroChat phones were equipped with numerous features to help criminals, such as the ability for messages to ‘burn’ ...