Drug lord and six cohorts who flooded streets with £70million of cocaine are jailed for 111 years (Photos)
A group of criminals, headed by a drug lord, and involving six other individuals, have been sentenced to a total of 111 years for flooding the streets with a total of £70 million worth of cocaine.
The gang's leader, Dean Beeton, aged 37, reportedly generated a weekly income of around £2.7 million, while 33-year-old Giovanni Luciano organized sales from his prison cell using a smuggled encrypted mobile phone.
On Wednesday, Judge Elaine Coello sentenced the seven gangsters at Kingston Crown Court for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs between December 2016 and January 2018.
The judge stated, "People who are caught engaging in the wholesale distribution of cocaine can expect severe sentences and you are at the top of the criminal drug supply network. You cau...