Two childhood friends of 40 years turned on one another as a prison drug smuggling ring unravelled.
Zak Mortimer and Nathan Slemen were part of a gang who plotted to fly up to £650,000 of drugs, tobacco and mobile phones into HMP Liverpool using drones. Pilots even used specialist technology in order to hack into the miniature aircraft and enable the gadgets to enter into the no-fly zone over the jail.
But when the police began to close in on the conspiracy and raided Mortimer's mum's house, he subjected Slemen to a brutal street attack and left him with a permanent disability. Both men were locked up at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday afternoon, Monday.
