Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A dad from Cheshire who lived a seemingly ordinary life was in fact organising drug deals on behalf of feared international crime gangs.
Thomas Maher simply appeared to be a successful businessman with a taste for the finer things in life. Despite enjoying high-end cars, flash jewellery and going for slap-up meals with his family, Maher, who ran a haulage business, lived in a modest home in the suburbs of Warrington.
And to unsuspecting neighbours, he was to an ordinary bloke who happened to run a successful business. Yet dad-of-three Maher was in fact secretly involved in international drug deals brokering purchases for deadly trans-national crime
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