A scaffolder-turned-drug-dealer who played a 'leading role' in one of the UK's biggest ever cocaine supply plots has been jailed.
A judge said Simon Buller 'took the risk for the rewards of profit without a care for the illegality' as he locked the 46-year-old up.
Together with a partner in crime who's already been jailed, he headed up an organised crime gang which imported and delivered hundreds of kilos of cocaine during what a court heard was a 'truly massive' conspiracy over 15 months.
The gang's geographical reach was 'extremely wide' and saw vast sums of the Class A drug transported by couriers to towns and cities right across the British mainland, the prosecution said.
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