The day before he was arrested for his part in the industrial-scale importation of cocaine Jonathan Cassidy went online to buy a £22,000 bed.
But, as one member of GMP's organised crime unit said: "He'll never sleep in it". The purchase was made as Cassidy was in Paris on his way back to the UK from Dubai, and was to have furnished a bedroom in his villa in the UAE.
He had fled to the United Arab Emirates when the encrypted EncroChat network - a WhatsApp for criminals - was cracked by French intelligence services in summer 2020.
Police are unsure why he returned to the UK later that year. He may have thought he was lucky, and that the police had not penetrated his phone.
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