exposed inside bag

Detectives were able to attribute this account to him due to references in messages to his co-defendant son, his daughter and his Hyundai i40.

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Through EncroChat, he plotted to store both cocaine and ketamine in a flat and transport the drugs in vehicles with hidden compartments.

Kinnear was also instructed by 'Bush Tern' to collect £100,000 in cash from Bolton on one occasion.

'Notorious Bonsai' thereafter contacted him in order to arrange for a kilogram of cocaine to be dropped off near the Asda in Walton.

He was meanwhile paid £250 by 'Elephant Gate' to "pick up some paper from Childwall" on May 30 2020, while he was shown to have used his daughter's car to drop off a quarter of a kilo of drugs beside a pub in Aintree in June 2020.

Jason Smith, defending, said: "He is 63 and has had to accept that a significant period of the latter part of his life will be spent serving a custodial sentence.