A pair of drug dealers were brought down by a ham sandwich and a can of Stella Artois.
Richard Wylie and Richard Whiteside were the owners of EncroChat handles Somesnail and Peppershirt respectively. EncroChat was one of the largest providers of encrypted communications and offered a secure mobile phone instant messaging service often used by criminals.
The EncroChat servers were taken down in 2020 following an investigation led by the National Crime Agency. Since then, many dealers who used the platform have been snared.
