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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Neal Keeling & Tom Duffy

Smiling cocaine boss thought he was 'undetectable'

Police found an incriminating photograph on the phone of a criminal who helped organise a violent drug robbery in Liverpool.

Liverpool gangster Richard Caswell conspired with the Cox crime family to steal 30kg of cocaine from a house on Croxdale Road West. A father and son suffered serious injuries during the raid when they were slashed and beaten by Caswell, Jason and Craig Cox.

Police became aware of the £1.2m robbery on Croxdale Road West following the penetration of the EncroChat phone network. They also discovered that the Cox gang had sold some of the stolen drugs to East Manchester criminal Leon Atkinson.

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