Meanwhile: in 🏴 'Operation Pepperoni'
notorious gangland criminal has admitted masterminding a plot to smuggle nearly a tonne of cocaine from South America to Scotland hidden in a cargo of bananas.
Known as 'Iceman', Jamie Stevenson has pled guilty to directing the importation of the drug which was seized by Border Force teams at Dover in September 2020.
He was once described as Scotland’s answer to Tony Soprano - The operation spanned the UK, Spain, Ecuador and Abu Dhabi.
Still in 🏴
former lawyer using the name of a fictional vigilante has been convicted of attempting to hire a hitman on the dark web to kill a prosecutor.
Martin Ready accessed a website called the “Online Killers Market” in an bid to have procurator fiscal Darren Harty killed in a “gangland-style execution” - Ready used the alias “Harry Brown” to pay for the murder, which he claimed was during a delusional period where he believed he was an “evil Jesus” figure.
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The court heard how it later emerged that the website – only accessible via the dark web – was a front for a lucrative scam.
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