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Computer geek who became dark web drug dealer to fund gambling habit jailed for 11 years
hidden in packets of coffee and kids' toys.He used the dark web, encrypted phones and crypto-currency to run a one-man drug empire between 2012 and 2018.A court heard Richens, of Kineston, Warwickshire, made hundreds of thousands of pounds from his drug trade which he blew on gambling on the stock market.Richens has now been jailed for 11-and-a-half years after he admitted drug smuggling, dealing and money laundering.Judge Anthony Potter told him: "You are someone who has chosen to misuse the obvious talents you have in the full knowledge of the harm and misery drugs bring to people."Drugs spread wholesale misery to families up and down the United Kingdom."You, as an intelligent man, would have known all of this when you began dealing in
