This is the face of the "dangerous" guns and drugs to Manchester's gangsters. Now Michael Derrane has been jailed for almost two decades.
Derrane, 50, supplied firearms to organised crime groups across the UK. Using the encrypted communications platform EncroChat, he orchestrated, supplied and transferred firearms and multiple kilos of class A and B drugs wholesale, selling them on to criminals for a profit.
Using the handle "Big Corey", he was well known to OCGs in Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, the Midlands, and London and would travel up to 700 miles to exchange illicit goods. In one series of messages he discussed the sale of 30 kilos of heroin split between locations in London, Leicester and Oxford.