jailed for 14 years and eight months.Irishman Thomas Maher, 40, was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to four counts of conspiracy to commit a crime abroad at an earlier hearing.The court heard that between March and May he played a role in conspiracies to transport a total of about £1.5 million of cocaine from the Netherlands to Ireland, via the UK, and to launder about £1 million cash between Ireland and the Netherlands.The father-of-three, of Warrington, Cheshire, used encrypted phone network Encrochat - which was accessed by law enforcement agencies across Europe earlier this year - to plan the transportation, the court heard.Sentencing him, Judge David Aubrey QC said: "You were an extremely important.
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