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EncroChat kingpins who ran drugs lab trafficked lorry loads of heroin and speed

Terence Earle ran a criminal network running heroin, cocaine and amphetamines between Merseyside and Scotland

Liverpool Echo · Dec 16, 2022

Crime gang convicted over ‘industrial scale’ £1.1m Motherwell amphetamine factory

The group, who also trafficked heroin and cocaine across the border between England and Scotland, used the encrypted communication platform EncroChat to organise their criminal dealings.

Daily Record · Dec 16, 2022

Migrants rescued from second sinking boat on same night four died in Channel

Border Force officers rescued 50 people, five of whom had ended up in the freezing water, after their boat started to sink

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022

£650k worth of gold seized at Heathrow airport to go under the hammer

The auction will be held this week

Liverpool Echo · Dec 14, 2022

Key points in Sunak’s plan to tackle migrant crossings

Rishi Sunak has set out a series of measures aimed at curbing the number of people crossing the English Channel in small boats.

The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2022

Children dumped in layby by smuggling gang as ringleader goes on the run

National Crime Agency (NCA) said Tarik Namik "headed up" the "large-scale" operation bringing Kurdish migrants into the UK hidden in the back of lorries

Daily Mirror · Dec 10, 2022

Car wash owner unmasked as leader of 'lucrative' people-smuggling gang who hid migrants in lorries

One group of migrants, which included five children, were released from a lorry 'desperate for food and water'

Manchester Evening News · Dec 10, 2022

Children dumped at side of road by wicked smuggling gang

They were released from the van when one had just dialled 999 to beg for help

Liverpool Echo · Dec 10, 2022

Dramatic moment gang arrested at gunpoint during National Crime Agency weapons raid

Five men have now been jailed for combined 32 years after the raid in Kings Norton, Birmingham

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2022

Nottingham gang member involved in 'sophisticated' people smuggling ring

Hardi Alizada has been jailed for one year and four months

Nottingham Post · Dec 9, 2022