Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A £27m drug boss who moaned when his secret phone was hacked by police has been jailed for 21 years.
Jordan Talbot told a partner: "EncroChat is f***ed the plod cracked them yesterday. The whole network got turned off." The "top level controller" then decided to source new encrypted devices to save his cocaine empire, adding: "I'm trying to sort out Skys now." But it was already too late for the man known as "LittleNev", because the full details of his 500-kilo Class A enterprise were in the hands of the law.
Talbot, 29, of Elson Road, Formby, in Merseyside, decided to flee to Spain with his girlfriend in a BMW after going on a spending spree buying
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