Tony Bennett, the Cumbernauld crim who styled himself as 'Mr Nice' and 'Kind Killer', got well and truly rumbled. French cops cracked the EncroChat messaging app in 2020, and it was all downhill from there, bruv. Bennett was one of over 60 international hoods working on a mega-drug smuggling op with South American cartels.
He set up secret labs right here in Scotland to process heroin and cocaine before flogging it off to dealers across the country 🙋🧑. His EncroChat chats laid out his plans to bring in an extra £800k, buy a Skorpion machine gun for £12k, and recruit a drugs lab expert for £45k.
High Court in Glasgow heard Bennett was an 'important link' with the Ecuador cartel. He copped a guilty plea for serious organised crime between March and June 2020, landing him three years and nine months inside. Prosecutors are after his ill-gotten gains too, reckonin' he made £125k from his dodgy dealings.