DARK SECRETS: 4 - The Real Truth

The gang who used the vulnerable, Covid and a city centre hotel to peddle misery to thousands

They have all been jailed following surveillance by Greater Manchester Police

Manchester Evening News · Mar 3, 2023

The criminal past of Thomas Campbell... the man 'tortured to death' in his own home

Thomas Campbell's killers have faced justice

Manchester Evening News · Feb 25, 2023

EncroChat gang with nicknames 'Shinyegg' and 'Buttermoon' snared after moving over £1 million worth of drugs

Cocaine, cannabis, weapons, more than £100,000 cash and a significant amount of crypto-currency was recovered

Manchester Evening News · Feb 23, 2023

73 faces and codenames of dozens of EncroChat criminals linked to Merseyside

An overview of the cases linked to the major investigation into the use of communications network EncroChat by the region's underworld

Liverpool Echo · Feb 5, 2023

Dennis the Dachshund, Conor McGregor, and the mistakes that landed EncroChat dealers in jail

The astonishing level of trust placed in EncroChat phones by senior criminals proved to be a catastrophic error

Liverpool Echo · Feb 4, 2023

Drunk easyJet passenger and smirking drug dealer among criminals locked up in Greater Manchester in January

Perverts, violent thugs and rapists were among those caged in our region

Manchester Evening News · Feb 4, 2023

'Middle man' in drug trade identified by pictures of girlfriend's dachshund Dennis

Seized photo album 'The Little Book of Dennis' linked heroin and cocaine trafficker to EncroChat handle

Liverpool Echo · Jan 31, 2023

EncroChat dealers 'MangyStaff' and 'WideOrchid' supplied Liverpool underworld

The dealers ran a drugs operation flooding towns across the UK

Liverpool Echo · Jan 31, 2023

Encrochat drug runner thought his messages were too heavily encrypted for police to crack... then a contact called him by his real name

Cocaine trafficker Kurtis Bolton is now behind bars

Manchester Evening News · Jan 31, 2023

The Manchester drug dealers jailed over huge operation that 'spanned whole of UK'

Police 'thrilled' after evidence gathered following the cracking of encrypted Encrochat mobile phone network

Manchester Evening News · Jan 31, 2023