6 h. ago The drug kingpin who made £2.5m a month: Gangland boss is hauled back to UK from Dubai after planning hit and being brought down by his own EncroChats

James Harding, 34, was arrested by counter terrorist specialist firearms officers at a London airport in May 2022 after being extradited from Switzerland on a private jet.

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7 h. ago Drug kingpin who plotted gangland murder from Dubai and smuggled £100m of cocaine into Britain is convicted after EncroChat probe

James Harding, 34, was arrested by counter terrorist specialist firearms officers at a London airport in May 2022 after being extradited from Switzerland on a private jet.

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18 h. ago Drug kingpins made £5m in ten weeks and plotted to murder rival

James Harding enjoyed lavish five-star hotels and drove Bugatti sports cars before their plot came crashing down

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23 h. ago Welcome back...good to see you! Moment counter terror cops arrested drug kingpin as he arrives back in Britain after he plotted gangland murder from his Dubai villa

James Harding, 34, was arrested by counter terrorist specialist firearms officers at a London airport in May 2022 after being extradited from Switzerland on a private jet.

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24 h. ago Drug kingpin who plotted gangland murder from Dubai and smuggled £100m of cocaine into the UK is convicted

James Harding, 34, and his 'loyal right-hand man' Jayes Kharouti, 39, ran a vast criminal empire from Dubai.

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25 h. ago Drug kingpin who plotted gangland murder of rival from his luxury Dubai villa and smuggled £5m worth of cocaine into the UK is convicted after one of the biggest EncroChat investigations in history

James Harding, 34, and his 'loyal right-hand man' Jayes Kharouti, 39, ran a vast criminal empire from Dubai.

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26 h. ago Drugs kingpins guilty of plotting murder and running drugs empire on EncroChat

The plot was scuppered by Scotland Yard officers who accessed the defendants’ secret discussions.

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4 d. ago Family's fury as women pose for bizarre 'photoshoot' at murder victim's home

The family of hit-and-run murder victim Brandon Lee Porter-Kershaw have been left distressed and 'disgusted' after two women staged a 'photoshoot' in their front garden

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4 d. ago Close ally of drug kingpin 'El Mencho' gets 30 years in prison as US ramps up pressure on cartels

Two close associates of the fugitive Jalisco New Generation boss known as “El Mencho” have been brought to justice in a U.S. courtroom as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on the cartel it recently designated a foreign terrorist organization

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5 d. ago Lawyer who once defended drug kingpin 'El Chapo' questions critics of her judicial victory

Of the 2,600 judges elected for the first time by Mexicans earlier this month, Silvia Delgado García received more attention than almost any other, because she once helped represent drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán

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6 d. ago Lawyer who once represented drug kingpin El Chapo wins judge post in Mexico

A lawyer who once represented drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has won a judgeship in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua in Mexico’s historic judicial elections this month

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8 d. ago Moment terrified migrants are smuggled OUT of Britain in back of lorry to avoid French visa crackdown as gang led by Algerian ringleader are found guilty over plot

The group, which included children, were being taken towards Dover in a bid to enter French soil undetected.

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1 week ago The true cost of Glasgow's gang wars: How city is fighting drugs crisis after kingpins flood streets with heroin and cocaine leading to addicts shooting up in parks and dropping needles with impunity

EXCLUSIVE: Locals living in the shadow of a new Glasgow drugs usage centre say since it opened they can't leave their house for fear of encountering addicts who 'shoot up in the parks'.

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1 week ago Drugs kingpin tortured and murdered his uncle then left body in bank vault

A man from Rochdale has been jailed

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2 w. ago 'El Capo' Encrochat dealer who ran £26m drug empire thinks his prison sentence is too long

His younger brother was a youth football star at Liverpool before injuries blighted his career

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2 w. ago Murder suspects remanded in custody accused of killing boy, 16

Zulkernain Ahmed, 20, and Armaan Ahmed, 26, also face three counts of attempted murder after a ‘hit-and-run’ incident in Sheffield.

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2 w. ago Murder of Texas megachuch pastor Joel Osteen’s relative is back on the radar of investigators

Authorities have reopened their investigation into the brutal murder of Johnnie Daniel, whose great-nephew, Joel Osteen, runs Lakewood Church, a Houston-area megachurch.

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2 w. ago Drug kingpin executed in Costa del Sol bar was 'becoming more powerful than his boss... and rival cartels who viewed him as "top dog" put £250k bounty on his head'

Ross Monaghan, 43, long associated with Glasgow 's violent Lyons crime family, was assassinated alongside fellow mobster Eddie Lyons Jr, 46, in Spain.

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2 w. ago Drug kingpin gunned down in Costa del Sol bar with Scottish gangster was 'seen as top dog by rival cartels'

Ross Monaghan, 43, long associated with Glasgow 's violent Lyons crime family, was assassinated alongside fellow mobster Eddie Lyons Jr, 46, in Spain.

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2 w. ago Murder suspect 'marries teen model girlfriend in secret wedding' while on run from police

Jonny Smyth, who is being held in a Spanish prison as a suspect in the murder of John George, married 19-year-old Madison Allen while on the run from police, his new wife claims

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