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Essex News & Investigations

Albanian bar owner wanted over cocaine supply in the venue is arrested in the UK
AN ALBANIAN bar owner, who allegedly allowed the premises to be used for drug supply, has been arrested in the UK on an international...
By JON AUSTIN
Apr 30, 2022
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Repeat offender jailed for 20 years had snap of £1m cash bagged up in storage tub on Encrochat phone
A GANG boss repeat offender, who went on the run after the Encrochat hack, has been jailed for 20 years for leading an organised crime...
By JON AUSTIN
Apr 7, 2022
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More than 3.7 tonnes of cocaine worth £302m found in bananas - biggest UK seizure in 7 years
MORE than 3.7 tonnes of cocaine worth £302million on the streets was found hidden in a container load of bananas (above) at Southampton...
By JON AUSTIN
Apr 5, 2022
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EXCLUSIVE: Encrochat brothers who sacked lawyers and snubbed trial get 25 years each for coke supply
TWO Encrochat defendants, who sacked their defence lawyers and failed to attend their trial, have been jailed for 25 years each. Jamie,...
By JON AUSTIN
Apr 4, 2022
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Piles of 'waste' allegedly dumped in grounds of mansion owned by former football boss Glenn Tamplin
OFFICIALS are investigating if the grounds of a mansion owned by a millionaire former football club boss have been used as an illegal...
By JON AUSTIN
Mar 13, 2022
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Sheerness Port worker charged with aiding drugs gang accused of importing 1.2 tonnes of cocaine
MORE than one hundred police including armed officers targeted a suspected organised crime group alleged to have used an insider at...
By JON AUSTIN
Dec 21, 2021
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KAVANAGH CASE: No sentence until 20 months after guilty pleas - what was in Vickery letter to judge?
THREE drug importers, who the National Crime Agency (NCA) says are aligned to the Kinahan cartel, will not be sentenced until at least 20...
By JON AUSTIN
Dec 4, 2021
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PAY BACK: Drug dealer forced to hand over more than the £130K found stashed in his home
A DRUG dealer who concealed hundreds of thousands of pounds in his Cambridge home has been ordered to pay back his ill-gotten gains....
By JON AUSTIN
Nov 24, 2021
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ENCROCHAT: Man wanted in Germany for 'aiding Albanian crime gang to import cocaine from Colombia'
A DAD of two suspected of being involved in large cocaine importations from South America to Europe using the EncroChat encrypted mobile...
By JON AUSTIN
Nov 21, 2021
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ENCROCHAT: 'I’ll blowtorch your balls and cut ear off'- torture gang threats to robbery victims
A RUTHLESS gang was recorded describing how they would torture wealthy robbery victims to get them to hand over their cash. Six of them...
By JON AUSTIN
Nov 16, 2021
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