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'Let's get this house done - we'll get a minimum 100 grand': Drugs gang caught plotting to rob and torture rich elderly man in 'fake police raid'

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A sinister drugs gang who discussed cutting an elderly man's ear off or holding an iron to his chest as part of a £500,000 robbery plot have been jailed.

Gary Betts, 57, Gerard Boyle, 57, and brothers John and Chris Sammon, aged 32 and 35, were part of a Manchester-based Organised Crime Group (OCG) that had known each other 'for many years', a court heard.

The gang took over a recycling business called South Manchester Plastics on Gorton Road in Openshaw and used it as a front for criminality, Manchester Crown Court was told.

During April and May last year, they began buying and selling kilos of cocaine in an operation that extended across the country.

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