For the latest Trafford news sign up to the MyTrafford newsletter here It was early one Tuesday morning when Aram Sheibani's world came crashing down.
In bed with his girlfriend at his luxury apartment in the affluent village of Bowdon, he was awoken at 6am to the sound of a police raid.
In a panic, knowing he'd finally been caught, international cocaine boss Sheibani desperately tried to destroy evidence, ramming an expensive, highly encrypted Encro phone down the toilet.
Handcuffed in his boxer shorts, the 40-year-old was forced to swap the plush interior of his £675,000 converted church home for Forest Bank prison.
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