Six Greater Manchester men jailed after £15m of drugs imported

Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:00

Six men from Greater Manchester have been jailed after £15m worth of drugs were imported to the UK.

On Monday 2 November 2015, a container was searched at London Gateway Port and was revealed to be transporting 47kg of cocaine concealed in car batteries, with an estimated value of £15m. The Class A concealment was sent by a company recently established in the Dominican Republic.

Police traced the delivery to a unit in Lancashire and to operations on a farm in Clifton. Officers commenced a search of the farm on 23 November 2015 and dogs had to be deployed to catch the fleeing suspects, with a further three members of the crime syndicate arrested a short time later.

They were all jailed yesterday (3 April 2017), for conspiracy to import class A drugs.

Darren Cleary, 37, of Clifton, has been jailed for 16 years and his associate Anthony Seddon, 51, of Swinton, was jailed for 14 years.

Jonathan Gregg, 23, and Lloyd Seddon, 26, both also from Swinton, were jailed for 10 years and eight months and six years respectively.

Reece Cole, 24, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 12 years and two years for possession with intent to supply class A drugs, which will run concurrently.

John Farnworth, 35, of Pendlebury was also jailed for 12 years.

Detective Sergeant Ryan Grumbridge of GMP’s Serious and Organised Crime Group, said: “This was a sophisticated operation, which was rapidly unravelled by the investigating officers, preventing the harmful growth of cocaine distribution on the streets of Greater Manchester and its neighbouring areas. Today, these men have received sentences that prevent them from causing any further harm and carrying out wrongful actions at the demise of innocent people.”

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