convicted of being a top ranking drug kingpin in Liverpool.Alan and his brother John Tobin supplied dangerous gun-wielding gangs across the country with hundreds of kilos of drugs from cocaine to heroine.The drug barrens finally met their comeuppance when police targeted a van containing 186kg of 90% pure cocaine while it travelled up the M6Part of their crew included a cage fighter nicknamed "The Bear" who was the "enforcer" for the brother's drug empireThe defence put forward by Alan's lawyers was that the 52-year-old only became involved in crime as a way to support his five children, reports the Liverpool Echo.According to his lawyer, Julian Nutter, after working in numerous jobs growing up Alan developed a passion for mental health.
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