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We’ve reported this already but the details make , shall we say, interesting reading.

Members of a £140m cocaine gang conducted their shady business in the car park of a Beefeater pub and at a GP practice. The Merseyside-based organised crime group was led by a drug importer known as “Thor”, who hatched a plot to smuggle a huge stash of class A drugs into the UK from Sierra Leone inside a shipment of flour.

Six men were locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years in connection with the scheme yesterday. They included a pensioner who was sent to prison on his 70th birthday.

Liverpool Crown Court heard on Thursday that the National Crime Agency launched Operation Lemonlike after 1.3 tonnes of cocaine, worth £36m at wholesale but with a street value of as much as £140m, was seized at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk. The 1,306kg of class A drugs had been concealed with a consignment of garri flour which had arrived from the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown on June 8 2022 and was bound for an industrial unit at Bradley Hall Trading Estate in Standish, Wigan, via a stop in Morocco.

Martin Reid KC, prosecuting, described Darren Schofield, of St Philip’s Avenue in Litherland, as a “a leading member of a Merseyside-based crime group” and “responsible for the overall coordination of the importation”, which was foiled when the huge haul was intercepted by the UK Border Force. The 45-year-old, who has no previous convictions, was nicknamed “Thor” by his fellow gang members, apparently owing to his long, flowing locks.

The investigation also led to Neil Maguire, of Georgia Close in Bootle, being identified as the user of the handle “Holy Book” on encrypted communications platform EncroChat. He was involved in trading 8.5kg of cocaine, worth around £300,000, via the network alongside contacts such as “Mister Gratitude”, “Cherry Vape”, “Frosty Mallet”, “Good Vibes.com” and “Stringfella” – which was said to have been Schofield’s account.

Surveillance meanwhile showed that both the 45-year-old and Paul O’Shea, of Edge Lane in Crosby, were involved in several handovers of drugs and cash. Schofield was links to a series of meetings with the two men and other unknown conspirators throughout the course of several months in 2023 as cocaine and money changed hands.

One, on March 8, saw him attend a garage with an unidentified male. Maguire then visited the same premises with the same man before driving off with a yellow sports bag which appeared to contain a parcel.

They then travelled to the Stag and Rainbow, a Beefeater pub in the West Derby area of Queens Drive, where another man leant into the passenger’s side of the vehicle and removed the bag. Maguire maintains that the package in question was half a kilogram of cocaine.

I wonder if they had the roast!

He and Schofield then met on April 28, with the former then meeting with O’Shea before travelling onwards to Norton Street in Bootle and removing a number of bin bags, plastic tubs and tins from the rear of a Ford Transit van and taking them into an address. A subsequent search of this address revealed a large quantity of chemicals in tins and tubs similar to those seen during the surveillance operation.

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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/140m-cocaine-gang-conducted-shady-30579030