Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city A courier who worked for a drugs gang which flooded the UK with cocaine and heroin has been jailed for 12 years.
John Burkquest, 37, ferried drugs and cash on behalf of 'gangster' Ian Shepherd, the head of a nationwide drugs ring. Burkquest was involved in exchanges in Moston and outside the Lowry Hotel in Salford. READ MORE : University student avoids jail after admitting sexually assaulting a child By his own admission, Burkquest was involved in transporting ten kilos of drugs.
He was stopped by police in Middlesbrough, and tried to hide heroin and cocaine in a patch of woodland. Manchester's courts are some of the busiest in the country with a
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