A convicted drugs baron ran an illicit business behind bars - while his partner in crime lived a luxury lifestyle. David Mulligan, 32, was serving 17 years at Her Majesty’s Pleasure when messages were uncovered between him and Remi Merriman, 35.
Over the course of a number of weeks, Merriman offered ‘wholesale’ amounts of cocaine and heroin to Mulligan, who was running his own separate drugs line from his prison cell using illegal mobile phones.
Following a GMP investigation - Operation Headland - into the supply of class A drugs in Tameside and across Greater Manchester, detectives arrested nine people. Officers searched a number of homes. Those searches uncovered drugs, cash and - at Merriman’s property - designer clothing, Rolex watches and high calibre bikes.
