The pair were part of a nationwide drugs gang who flooded Britain with £6m worth of heroin
Drug dealers made this shocking video flaunting their profits after supplying heroin to the streets of Wales.
Jamal Swaby and Shafiq Ahmed are shown rapping in the video as they show off their cash.
The pair were among 20 crooks in a nationwide drugs network who were jailed for nearly 200 years in total after flooding Britain with £6m worth of heroin.
They were brought to justice after police discovered an industrial-scale operation, accessible only by crawling through a tunnel behind a washing machine.
Lee Halpin and Andrew Worrall were caught red-handed mixing 2.5kg of heroin, valued at £250,000, in a flat on January 15, 2015.
The pair, along with Carl Smyth, admitted dealing Class A drugs and were each jailed for eight years at Liverpool Crown Court in May 2015.
But it was only part of a wider, cross country trafficking plot, which fed five gangs in Wales, England and Scotland with an estimated 60kg of drugs.
They used mobile phones sneaked into prison
Detectives revealed the criminals continued to direct the conspiracy even after they were locked up, using mobile phones sneaked into their prison cells.
Judge Denis Watson, QC, sentenced four dealers from South Wales, 10 from Merseyside, three from Devon and Cornwall and three from Scotland.
He said: “These offences result in degradation and human misery for those who take the drugs, their families and the wider community, impacted not least because of the increase in crime committed to pay for them.
“It’s a depressing truth that so much crime, and the wretched impact of that crime, flows from the evil of drug supply.”
“The Lidderdale Three” – Halpin, Worrall and Carl Smyth – used a hydraulic press and cut and repackaged “off the boat” heroin.
It was then delivered by their “trusted couriers”, including Halpin’s “right hand man” Thomas Burns, Graeme Testrow, Paul Fleming, Paul Roberts and Anthony Smith.
After they were arrested, “Edward Smyth came to the fore in order to fill his brother’s shoes”, while Stephen Phillips then sourced their “import grade” heroin, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Newport drug dealers received drugs on a weekly basis
Nicholas Goddard, working with James Hawes, headed a gang in Newport, which received kilos of the drug on a weekly basis.
Another group in Newport collecting weekly deliveries from Liverpool consisted of Shafiq Ahmed and Jamal Swaby.
Mervin Hyde was the man in charge in the West Country, assisted by his girlfriend Beth Flower and courier Jason Fletcher.
Candice Gorman led an outfit in Irvine, Scotland, relying on Donald Campbell, while father and son duo John and William Williamson operated out of Perth, Scotland.
Burns, Flower, Gorman and John Williamson were found guilty after trials, while all the other dealers admitted the heroin conspiracy.
Edward Smyth also admitted a separate cocaine plot – linked to city drug lord Steven Kelly – after he was caught with 250kg of high purity cocaine.
Judge Watson imposed the following sentences
Carl Smyth, 39, of no fixed address was sentenced to eight years and two months
Lee Halpin, 30, of Beams Close, Edge Hill was sentenced to eight years and four months
Andrew Worrall, 30, of Abergale Road, Old Swan was sentenced to seven years and eight months
Edward Smyth, 40, of Jubilee Avenue, Broadgreen was sentenced to 14 years
Stephen Phillips, 47, of Cremorne Hey, Huyton was sentenced to eight years and four months
Paul Fleming, 51, of Markfield Road, Bootle was sentenced to nine and a half years
Thomas Burns, 33, of no fixed address was sentenced to 13 and a half years
Anthony Smith, 36, of no fixed abode was sentenced to seven and a half years
Graeme Testrow, 28, of no fixed abode was sentenced to four years and seven months
Paul Roberts, 51, of Oakhill Road, Old Swan was sentenced to nine years and two months
Nicholas Goddard, 36, of Chepstow Road, Newport was sentenced to 13 years
James Hawes, 39, of Howe Circle, Newport was sentenced to eight years
Shafiq Ahmed, 26, of Llanvair Road, Newport was sentenced to nine years and five months
Jamal Swaby, 22, of Chepstow Road, Newport was sentenced to 11 and a half years
Jason Fletcher, 47, of Treryn Close, Devon was sentenced to eight years
Mervin Hyde, 49, of Russell Court, Tavistock, Devon was sentenced to 11 years
Beth Flower, 29, of Russell Court, Tavistock, Devon was sentenced to nine years
Candice Gorman, 32, of Millside Gardens, Kilwinning, Scotland was sentenced to 13 years
Donald Campbell, 47, of Hayocks Road, Stevenston, Scotland was sentenced to eight years and eight months
John Williamson, 52, of Tulloch Terrace, Perth, Scotland was sentenced to 12 years
William Williamson, 32, of Glengarry Road, Perth, Scotland will be sentenced at a later date
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/drug-dealers-film-themselves-flaunting-12299792
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