Brian Mounsey, 50, of Stockton-on-Tees, once sentenced to death in Thailand for drug dealing but commuted to 40 years in prison.

Richard Arthur Daniels, 38, of Beechwood Road, Wibsey, was jailed for ten years. Anthony Davies, 27, of Lloyds Drive, Low Moor, got six years.

A third Bradford man, Dean Martin, 30, of Glendale Drive, Wibsey, is expected to be sentenced next week. Daniels had admitted a charge of conspiring to supply cocaine. Davies and Martin pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply class A drugs.

The court heard that much of the prosecution case was built around surveillance of the mastermind John Roe, 40, of Workington, Cumbria, who organised one major pick up of imported cocaine and cannabis valued at £29,000 from London. Police secretly recorded his conversations as he journeyed from Bradford to London. He was jailed for 12 years. The gang included a man, Brian Mounsey, 50, of Stockton-on-Tees, once sentenced to death in Thailand for drug dealing but commuted to 40 years in prison. He was jailed for ten years. The senior detective who led the investigation said the gang was regarded by police as the number one threat to law and order in Cumbria.
Detective Inspector Jason Hudson, of Cumbria Constabulary’s serious and organised crime unit, said: “The impact of these convictions can’t be underestimated.”
The conspiracy involved links with drug barons in Yorkshire and outside the UK. Roe admitted three charges of conspiring to supply cannabis, and one each of conspiring to supply cocaine and amphetamines. Surveillance gave police key evidence against the gang’s importer, Gino Obiekezie, a 34-year-old London man with a Nigerian passport, who admitted two counts of conspiring to supply class A drugs and one of importing cocaine. He was jailed for eight years.