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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