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Richard Holland has recently successfully completed the prosecution of 10 members of Class A wholesale drug dealing operation, including a group of whom possessed a 9mm pistol which they had hidden under the floorboards of a house in Newcastle.
The defendants were caught following an extensive covert police investigation by Northumbria Police and following the infiltration of the EncroChat messaging system by law enforcement in 2020.
Following a 2 day sentencing hearing on 28 and 29 January 2026 at Newcastle Crown Court before HHJ Clemitson, the Defendants received sentences totalling 74 years.
One defendant will be sentenced at a later date.
Richard was instructed by Stephen Abigail of the CPS Serious Economic and Organised Crime and International Directorate.
For more details of the case, please see here:
‘Sophisticated’ drug gang jailed for 74 years after supplying £1.3m of coke in a month – The Mirror
Everything we know as North East drugs gang jailed for 74 years | Chronicle Live
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