A convicted killer who stabbed a man to death while a member of the racist 'Mudmen' gang is back in prison after joining a conspiracy to flood Wales with Class A drugs.
Daniel Masher, now 33, fell foul of the EncroChat-encrypted phone hack which exposed an organised crime group trafficking multi-kilos of cocaine, crack and heroin between Liverpool and Cardiff. Masher, the only dealer at the "Liverpool end" of the conspiracy to be caught so far, was found to have counted and packaged £864,000 in cash and been involved in moving 90kg of drugs.
At the Welsh end of the conspiracy, the gang was found to have been paying former Liverpool FC prospect Layton Maxwell, 43, to use his Cardiff home as a stash-house. Police from the South Wales Regional Organised Crime Unit, known as Tarian, found drugs worth £6m and £2.5m in dirty cash inside the property.
