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Organised crime gang jailed, South Devon
An organised crime gang dubbed by locals as ‘The Geordies’ - who brought misery to communities in South Devon - have been jailed for a combined total of 105 years.
A judge at Bristol Crown Court today [Tuesday 4 February] sentenced the group for a litany of Class A and B drugs offences.
Several of its members were also convicted of sexual offences against women.
The gang exerted significant influence and control within Dawlish and Teignmouth and used violence and coercive tactics to maintain a criminal empire valued at £1million.
As a consequence, it exploited a number of vulnerable people and flooded the streets with cocaine and cannabis.
Two of its members were also convicted of conspiracy to supply heroin.
Five of the gang have been jailed for multiple rapes.
The group, the core of which was in fact made up of individuals originally from Sunderland, used serious violence to enforce debt - with some individuals owing as much as £50,000.
Its leader James Lee Brooks – known as ‘Geordie Lee’ – boasted he was the ‘King of Dawlish’ and said of his band of criminals, ‘We run this town’ and, ‘Cash is king’.
Brooks, aged 41, of Dawlish, is now beginning a 25-year prison sentence for 20 drugs and sex offences.
These included conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis and 13 counts of aiding and abetting rape.
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Organised crime gang jailed, South Devon
An organised crime gang dubbed by locals as ‘The Geordies’ - who brought misery to communities in South Devon - have been jailed for a combined total of 105 years.
A judge at Bristol Crown Court today [Tuesday 4 February] sentenced the group for a litany of Class A and B drugs offences.
Several of its members were also convicted of sexual offences against women.
The gang exerted significant influence and control within Dawlish and Teignmouth and used violence and coercive tactics to maintain a criminal empire valued at £1million.
As a consequence, it exploited a number of vulnerable people and flooded the streets with cocaine and cannabis.
Two of its members were also convicted of conspiracy to supply heroin.
Five of the gang have been jailed for multiple rapes.
The group, the core of which was in fact made up of individuals originally from Sunderland, used serious violence to enforce debt - with some individuals owing as much as £50,000.
Its leader James Lee Brooks – known as ‘Geordie Lee’ – boasted he was the ‘King of Dawlish’ and said of his band of criminals, ‘We run this town’ and, ‘Cash is king’.
Brooks, aged 41, of Dawlish, is now beginning a 25-year prison sentence for 20 drugs and sex offences.
These included conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis and 13 counts of aiding and abetting rape.
Read the full story here:
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at least the "king of Dawlish" got 25 years in the hotel Babylon 
