A dealer selling a range of illegal drugs on the dark web used the NHS logo and dubbed his site the "Narcotic Health Service", a court has heard. Kurtis Dunphy was offering Class A drugs such as LSD, ecstasy, and the powerful opioid oxycodone for sale on his site along Valium-type drugs and cannabis. When the FBI took down the underground trading platform he was using the defendant simply moved his operation to another one and continued in business.
Swansea Crown Court heard that when Welsh police tracked him down and executed a search warrant at his home he was logged onto his online selling site and tried to destroy evidence by throwing a glass a water over his laptop keyboard in the hope of causing it to crash. The attempt failed, and the 25-year-old year has now been sent to prison for four years.
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