'Get 100k off bongo for me': Respected engineer's double life exposed by texts from 'Mr Inappropriate'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Attorney General has lost a bid to increase the 'unduly lenient' prison sentence of a drugs courier caught hauling more than 155 kilos of cocaine across the country during the early months of lockdown.
Matthew Clarke was jailed for nine years in April after his role in an organised crime group was uncovered when law enforcement hacked encrypted communications network Encrochat.
Working under the handle 'Gingerspeaker' over a three month period, the 43-year-old supplied 155 kilos of cocaine and transferred £100,000 of criminal cash on behalf of a gang based in Ashton-under-Lyne.
Messages to people higher up in the conspiracy were discovered when European law enforcement officials cracked the Encrochat network and handed the data to UK cops.
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