Morgan Freeman, Olivier Marchal and Simone Ashley will be lauded at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in June. Prince Albert II of Monaco will present Freeman with Festival’s Crystal Nymph award.
25.04.2024 - 17:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A crime gang responsible for the biggest gun running plot ever countered by UK law enforcement operated its main stash house from a plush Ancoats residential development. A property in the Cotton Field Wharf plot at Ancoats Marina was rented out to store guns, ammunition, drugs and ‘vast’ amounts of cash.
Adrian Gonzalez, 33, the gangster in charge of the stash house, has now been jailed for 25 years. The gang’s ringleader, Omar Malik, was previously jailed for 38 years while four other conspirators were also handed lengthy prison sentences.
A judge at Manchester Crown Court said the gang were responsible for criminality on an ‘exceptional scale’. They were behind the supply of cocaine worth £70m, and sold 48 Skorpion machine pistols to other gangsters across the UK and Ireland.
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“This trade in guns and ammunition, Mr Gonzalez, was described by an expert in this field as being amongst the very highest level of criminal firearm trafficking ever encountered by law enforcement in the United Kingdom,” Judge John Potter told Gonzalez, who he labelled a ‘determined’ and ‘professional criminal’.
“You proved willing to be active in a trade, which on any view, causes misery to many within our communities. You knew and appreciated this harm arising from your actions. You were inspired by nothing more than greed and selfishness, in my judgement, to sacrifice the welfare of countless others, with a view to make you very rich indeed.”
Prosecutors said that the gang peddled drugs across the country through an ‘established network of contacts’. The cocaine dealt by the gang was high purity and ‘import
Morgan Freeman, Olivier Marchal and Simone Ashley will be lauded at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in June. Prince Albert II of Monaco will present Freeman with Festival’s Crystal Nymph award.
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