A GANG responsible for supplying cocaine and heroin with an estimated street value of more than £140,000 in Cheshire have been jailed for a combined total of more than 20 years. Five members of the county lines supply network known as ‘Titch’ were previously sentenced on Thursday, December 17, 2020, at Liverpool Crown Court. The sixth and leading member Thomas Rayment was jailed for six years at a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court on today (Wednesday, February 17). The operation saw gang members, led by Thomas Rayment, supply cocaine and heroin to drug users in Warrington during a six-month period from October 2019 and March 2020. Over a series of months, officers from Cheshire Constabulary’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit investigated the gang, witnessing drug deals and monitoring telecoms.
DRUGS ring members have been sentenced to a total of more than 16 years for a prolific operation which saw them sell more than £100,000 of heroin and crack cocaine in Warrington. Ryan Baker, 32 and Matthew Parrack, 40, both of Bridgewater Avenue in Latchford, were sentenced for their involvement in the county lines drugs offences, which brought Class A drugs from Manchester into Warrington over a five-month period. Also sentenced were Sheldon Simpson, 28, of The Meadows in Rochdale, Nadia Khatub-Shahidi, 32, of Durley Avenue in Manchester, and Callum Davies, 20, of Kersal Road in Prestwich. Thomas Rayment, 30, of Brookvale Close in Burtonwood, will be sentenced at a later date.