A former cricket starlet who had dreams of turning pro has been jailed alongside two university graduates for their involvement in a huge drugs plots. Nicholas Doyle's ambitions as an 'extremely promising' cricketer were dashed after injury cut short his playing career.
The 28-year-old has now been locked up for seven years and two months after his shocking descent into drug dealing was uncovered. Michalis Papangelis, 28, an 'intelligent and 'well educated' graduate from an 'excellent background', and Salford University graduate Daniel Moscrop, 35, have also been sentenced to 12 years and nine months and three years and nine months in prison respectively.
Their involvement in large scale drug dealing was revealed by the law enforcement hack of the encrypted EncroChat network, when messages they believed were secret came back to haunt them. Police learned Papangelis, who lived in a plush apartment block in Ancoats, was involved in commercial drug dealing and was linked to about 25 kilos of cocaine.
