A property developer - described as 'community minded' - was hiding a dark secret. He was trafficking huge amounts of cocaine under the pseudonym "Covid Kid".
Wesley Campbell was identified as a downstream customer of Craig and Ashley Gallagher as they plotted to flood the country with hundreds of kilograms of illicit class A substances every week.
As well as calling on a network of contacts in Brazil, the Netherlands and Spain as they looked to import drugs into the UK on a "breathtaking" scale, the brothers also arranged the sale of a frightening arsenal of guns - including AK-47 assault rifles and semi-automatic AR-15s, the Liverpool Echo reports. Join our FREE Manchester Crime and Court WhatsApp group by clicking here Liverpool Crown Court heard this week that the organised crime group conducted its business over encrypted communications platform EncroChat.
But the ring was exposed when the network was infiltrated by law enforcement during 2020. Stephen McNally, prosecuting, described how Campbell was a "customer" of the Gallagher brothers and an "onward supplier with others working under his direction".
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