Big-time drug dealer pal of cop killer Dale Cregan moans he's skint and owes rival £220k
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA big-time drug dealer behind bars for his part in a £1m cocaine supply racket told a confiscation hearing his life is in danger behind bars because he's skint and in debt to a rival.
Leon 'Aki' Atkinson, 47, from Atherton - a friend of jailed police killer Dale Cregan - was jailed for 15 years in 2022 after he was unmasked as a 'regional supplier' for a gang smuggling huge amounts of cocaine into the UK.
He used the handles 'Carrot Horn' and 'Maiden Bear' on the encrypted messaging platform EncroChat. Today (Thursday, January 9) he failed to persuade Manchester's top judge he was in debt and made NO profit from his admitted drug dealing.
He sold drugs imported into the UK and was behind the supply of at least at least 28 kilos of cocaine. Atkinson took on 13 kilos of the cocaine after it was stolen in an audacious armed robbery at the stash house of a notorious Liverpool gang.
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