The brutal enforcer dubbed 'Kingswasp' who helped source grenades and guns for gang boss

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A notorious gang enforcer with a history of violence and crime which spans Europe helped source grenades and a firearm for his boss after his stash house was raided.

Paul 'Woody' Woodford, 58, has a notorious past in Merseyside but after the lifting of reporting restrictions his association with gang boss Vincent Coggins and his role in a menacing blackmail plot that resulted in a terrified dad handing over a house and land worth £1m can now be revealed.

Woodford, under the handle 'Kingwasp' on the encrypted messaging platform EncroChat, communicated with Coggins, his older brother Francis and a number of other associates including Edward Jarvis and Michael Earle.

As well as sourcing multi-kilo Class A drug hauls that they distributed across their elaborate networks, the gangsters also plotted revenge on anyone who crossed them, the Liverpool Echo reports. RECAP: Bomb squad destroy 'old grenade' which sparked huge emergency response They were unaware their messages were being monitored by police officers after the EncroChat network was hacked by European authorities in April 2020.