Olivia gunman's drug kingpin boss is jailed

He ordered brutal attacks on rival thugs | Had links to Spanish house raided by cops

- TOM PETTIFOR, NICK SOMMERLAD, HOLLIE BONE

THE drug kingpin boss of Olivia Pratt-Korbel's murderer has been jailed after the crime gang he ran with his brother was smashed.

Vincent Coggins, 58, ruled the feared Huyton Firm and ordered attacks on rivals like the one that resulted in the nine-year-old's death.

Olivia's killer, Thomas Cashman, was a hitman for Coggins before he was jailed for her murder.

Vincent, known as the Headmaster, and his older brother Francis gained a fearsome status similar to fellow Liverpool trafficker Curtis Warren.

The pair reportedly moved to Spain in the 1990s and forged links with organised crime groups around the world.

Using international contacts, they smuggled cocaine from Colombian cartels through Europe and into the UK.

Heavily armed police Spanish stormed a Costa del Sol villa linked to the brothers in 2017 but they were never charged.

Four cannabis farms offering annual yields worth up to £6.4million were smashed by officers.

The Coggins brothers were later caught messaging about one cocaine deal worth £16million and being helped by a corrupt police insider called "piggy".

Vincent threatened to top, and Briar torture one local businessman, texting in broken English: "Then we deside weather we slash him, chop his fingers off or wotever."

The gangster later boasted he had slashed the man with a knife, writing "slash across face an smashed his eyes in an took half an ear an tonge".

The brothers can be named following the conclusion of a series of trials at Manchester crown court.

Matt Horne, a former investigator at the National Crime Agency, said their "industrial-scale trafficking of drugs" and willingness to use severe violence put them "in the upper tiers of organised crime in the UK".