Two men who used EncroChat devices to supply class A drugs have been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court.
Clifford McNamee, 47, of Rusland Road, Kirkby and Nathan Sweeney, 46, of Fern Close, Kirkby, were involved in a large-scale conspiracy to supply class A drugs around Liverpool.
Both men pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to supply cocaine and one count of conspiracy to supply heroin. Mr Henry Riding, prosecuting, described how “abroad forces” infiltrated the encrypted devices and found the data from the end of March 2020, some of which was then decoded and sent to police forces in the UK.
