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A man caught smuggling drugs into prison was behind bars waiting to be dealt with for the horrific, 15 hour-long torture of a woman where she was beaten, cut and doused in petrol.
Ryan Colin Bell, 33, was in custody for the 2019 torture of Sophie Whiteley when he came up with a âmastermindâ plan to have drugs smuggled into Woodford Correctional Centre. Bell and another man âconnedâ two women into smuggling 59 strips of suboxone into the facility in November that year.
One of the women had placed the wrapped drugs in her mouth but was stopped by security guards when entering.
SE Qld drug dealers: 19 peddlers of misery revealed
Crime by Brendan O’Malley
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Subscriber only The southeast battled its biggest drug problem in nearly two decades when lockdown lifted in May, with a new generation of pushers who are using Instagram as their dial-a-dealer platform of choice. Many turned their homes into major drug mail order operations or grow houses and meth labs, with the problem now so widespread professional chemical cleaning companies have warned tenants moving into a rental to get their property tested for drug contamination. We take at look at some of the dealers who faced the courts in 2020 after the long arm of the law finally caught up with them.