Jack Wymer known as 'ItchyTrain' was the latest in a long list of criminals put behind bars for their role in using encrypted mobile phones to transport and sell thousands of pounds of drugs.
Around 60,000 users of EncroChat have been identified worldwide, with about 10,000 of them in the UK – all involved in coordinating and planning the supply and distribution of drugs and weapons, money laundering and other criminal activity. The encrypted phone network was infiltrated by Dutch and French police in early 2020, and since then thousands of criminals across Europe have been arrested and prosecuted.
The UK response to the hack, Operation Venetic, has seen more than 200 drug traffickers and violent enforcers arrested in Merseyside alone. Here are some of the men who have been put behind bars this year.
