By Press Association 2021
Andrew Doyle, 35; Derrick Canning, 50, both from west London; Catherine Roche, 63, and her son Joe, both from Fulham, south west London, were all jailed on Monday
A crime gang who dressed as key workers to avoid capture and joked about a weekly clap for drug dealers have been jailed.
Andrew Doyle, 35, from Hammersmith, north London, used the name “Neighbourhoodhero” on a secret encrypted messaging network while carrying out cocaine deals at the height of lockdown last year.
He exchanged messages with Derrick Canning, 50, from Isleworth, west London, as they sold drugs across London.
In one conversation in April last year, Doyle asked Canning: “Mate, do you have a high vis and stuff for the van? And like builder clothes? We need to look official in times like this.”
London crime gang dressed as key workers and joked about clap for drug dealers
A crime gang who dressed as key workers to avoid capture and joked about a weekly clap for drug dealers have been jailed.
Andrew Doyle, 35, from Hammersmith, used the name “Neighbourhoodhero” on a secret encrypted messaging network while carrying out cocaine deals at the height of lockdown last year.
He exchanged messages with Derrick Canning, 50, from Isleworth, west London, as they sold drugs across London.
In one conversation in April last year, Doyle asked Canning: “Mate, do you have a high vis and stuff for the van? And like builder clothes? We need to look official in times like this.”
A crime gang who dressed as key workers to avoid capture during the first UK lockdown, joking about a weekly clap for drug dealers, have been jailed.
Andrew Doyle, 35, from Hammersmith, north London, used the name Neighbourhoodhero on a secret encrypted messaging network while carrying out cocaine deals at the height of lockdown last year.
He exchanged messages with Derrick Canning, 50, from Isleworth, west London, as they sold drugs across London.
Still taken from footage of police raiding the drug gang. Evidence showed that they plotted to continue their operation during the first and strictest UK lockdown
The messages were exchanged on the Encrochat network, an encrypted system that was brought down by law enforcement last year after a successful hack by French investigators
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