A drugs gang who used a van with a secret trap door and encrypted phones to ship high purity cocaine and amphetamine onto the streets of Tyneside have been jailed for a total of 47 years
Head of the organised crime group, John Allock, was locked up for 21 years and five members of his North East-based gang got sentences ranging from a year to 13 years. As they were locked up at Newcastle Crown Court, a judge said they had wasted tens of thousands of pounds having a trial that took 22 weeks despite overwhelming evidence against them.
Judge Tim Gittins told them: "You six fall to be sentenced for your part in a sophisticated enterprise that preyed upon people's addictions. Addictions that
