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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Nick Tyrrell

'Home-cooked' drug empire brought hardened crooks profit and then pain

A Merseyside gang who were jailed for a total of 187 years built a mini-empire around an unusual drug they cooked themselves in a suburban home.

Instead of focusing on cocaine or heroin, Anthony Saunderson, Paul Mount and Darren Owens found their own niche producing injectable amphetamine that they then shipped across England, Scotland and Wales. But their business, estimated to be worth millions, has come crashing down.

This is the story of a gang dedicated to the production and distribution of an unusual type of drug - and how that dedication brought them profit and prison terms.

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