A 30‑year‑old man who had brokered multi‑million‑pound drug deals has been jailed after police pieced together his identity from encrypted messages referencing his famous father.
Thomas Hooton, of Victoria Road West in Crosby, Liverpool, used the messaging service EncroChat, under the name “Ownraptor”, to deal heroin, cocaine, cannabis and ketamine, with a wholesale value of approximately £1.3 million.
