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Hippy crack twins jailed
Daily Mirror UK
|August 30, 2025
TWINS who flooded the UK with canisters of “hippy crack” laughing gas have been jailed.
Benjamin and Thomas Richardson, 38, along with Carl Messen, hid their scheme with fake catering firms.
Leeds crown court heard they brought in 91 million canisters of nitrous oxide from 2016 to 2018. Importing anything likely to be used as a drug is banned.
This story is from the August 30, 2025 edition of Daily Mirror UK.
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