Drug dealers could not quite believe the message sent to them by the administrators of the Encrochat network in June 2020. Unfortunately the drug dealers were about to realise the advice offered to them was academic and binning the device pointless. The Liverpool man was found guilty after a protracted trial and jailed for 25 years. The Liverpool man disappeared after being released from custody and is now thought to be overseas. I think the most interesting point is howEncrochat has unearthed a whole swathe of low key drug dealers who were anonymous.

Source: Daily Mail December 27, 2025 14:38 UTC