Since police infiltrated EncroChat in 2020, hundreds of users of the encrypted messaging service have been jailed after their secret plots to supply drugs and guns were uncovered.
Many were handed huge sentences after being incriminated by their own messages to other crooks, which they believed would never see the light of day. Dozens have been locked up here in Merseyside alone.
As part of the network, members are required to go under a pseudonym known as a handle. And these are some of the most unique nicknames which were used by criminals from our region, as revealed in the courts during 2022.
