Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A Merseyside drug gang who imported cocaine in children's Lego boxes have been jailed after their Encrochat messages were revealed.
Jack Jones once served his country in the Royal Marines and was deployed at conflicts around the world. But the 28-year-old dreamed of becoming a 'multimillionaire' by supplying cocaine, heroin, MDMA and cannabis across the UK.
He hatched an importation plot involving hiding drugs inside toy boxes with the help of his fellow ex-commando Issac Rasmussen, 28, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Avoiding the need for couriers, they instead had multi kilo amounts of their product and dirty cash posted via delivery service DPD from
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