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Drugs gang jailed for total of 154 years (19 June 2015)

Date: 19/06/2015
Duncan Lewis, Crime Solicitors, Drugs gang jailed for total of 154 years

Maidstone Crown Court had jailed a gang of nine men for 154years, after they were convicted of flooding the UK with heroin, cocaine and cannabis.

The gang imported more than 100kg of drugs from locations abroad to an industrial estate in Swanley in Kent.

The Daily Mail reports that a two-year investigation which began in September 2013 led to police busting the gang’s drugs operation, after German authorities alerted UK police to large quantities of Class A and B drugs being shipped to Britain.

Other dealers would buy supplies from the gang’s warehouses, where consignments were kept in shipping containers.

The drugs were sent from overseas in bags and stuffed in boxes filled with Styrofoam.

Police tracked one of the packages to an industrial unit in Eton, Berkshire, where one of the gang members was waiting to take delivery of it. The remaining members of the gang were arrested after they arrived from
Liverpool, Manchester and Blackburn to buy the drugs.


The leaders of the operation, Stephen Hall and Royston Jones, fled the UK, but were arrested on arrival back in Britain from Lithuania and Thailand.

They had used false names when arranging delivery of the drugs consignments – and also invented false business names to have the drugs delivered to boxes at the industrial estate.

On Wednesday (17/06/15) at Maidstone Crown Court, Stephen Hall, 53, was jailed for 20 years.

His accomplice Royston Jones, 56, was sentenced to 27 years in jail

The other members of the gang included Thomas Aitken, 31, from Dartford, who was sentenced to 17 years and six months; Julian Bridgen, 50, from Wellingorough, who received a 12-year jail term; Sonny Selves, 24, from Stone near Dartford, who was given 16 years and six months in jail; Lee Selves, 29, from Dartford, who was handed a 20-year jail term; Nicholas Parker, 34, from Dartford, jailed for 18 years; Sanpreet Dhaliwal, 30, from Slough, jailed for seven years and four months; and Steven Joyce from Swanley, who was given a 16-year jail sentence.

Detective Superintendent at Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, Mark Hall, said:


“As a result of our investigations, we were able to intercept a further large consignment of drugs destined for Eton in Berkshire – and to gain crucial evidence of the involvement of not only the foot soldiers collecting the drugs, but more importantly of the top tier of the smuggling ring as well.”

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