John Holland, Jack Kirby, Luke Shinner, and Paul Jevons worked for a gang using a phone number nicknamed 'Scouse Eddie'
Drug dealers from Skelmersdale were stopped with £21,000 worth of heroin in their vehicle on a motorway after being used as 'donkey's by a drugs gang.
Three of the men were arrested when a car was stopped on the motorway in Exeter in March last year and drugs with a street value of £21,000 were seized. The men had roles as couriers and runners and were directed by those above them in the chain.One defence barrister made claims that the men were "donkeys" used by others to carry out their dirty work, Devon Live reports. The defendants, from Skelmersdale, were sentenced on Monday at Exeter Crown Court.
Prosecutor Mr Peter Coombe said 300g of street-deal heroin and cocaine was seized by police in a car on its way to Plymouth. Investigations revealed Holland, the driver, had made seven previous trips, stopping in the city for an hour or so each time. All of the defendants said they came from difficult backgrounds and were just doing as they were told. Holland was financially motivated, the others were paying off drug debt or financing their habit. Messages on Shinner's phone showed he was threatened into taking part.
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