All news on the topic: Cocaine

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Rogue trader, 23, scammed elderly couple out of £10k with roof 'worse than DIY'
Kyle Stafford, 23, left a couple with a half-done roof at their property in Leyland, which experts say didn't 'even meet the standard of a DIYer' after he vanished during the job
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Mum and ex jailed for 'violent discipline' murder of 18-month-old boy
Little Alfie Phillips, described as "good as gold", was found murdered with a myriad of bruises, a broken leg, arm and ribs at his home in Hernhill, Kent. He also had cocaine in his little body
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Mum's final words that will live with her daughter for the 'rest of her life'
Michelle Atherton, 47, died in a crash in St Helens, Merseyside, with her boyfriend Kevin Marsh, 43, later convicted of causing death by dangerous driving and sentenced for 16 years
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Sinister dad killed girlfriend in horror crash then tried to pin blame on her
Kevin Marsh drank gin and snorted cocaine as he watched a Bear Grylls show on Netflix hours before getting behind the wheel in St Helens with Michelle Atherton in the passenger seat
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Hunt for escaped drug kingpins as Ecuador descends into chaos and gang violence
Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, was sprung from his cell on Sunday. Two days later, rival drug lord Fabricio Colón Pico, of the Los Lobos group, escaped from a different jail in Ecuador
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Bungling cocaine dealers found with £100k cash stashed inside Lidl plastic bag
Birmingham criminal Olsian Vogli and Londoner Orest Malushi have been jailed for almost eight years after stashing £100,000 drug money inside a Lidl carrier bag
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MAFS UK star 'betrayed' after brother jailed over staggering £3m cocaine stash
Married At First Sight UK star Luke Worley has admitted he was 'betrayed' after his brother was sent to prison after police found a huge cocaine stash in the boot of his car
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Pilot of SeaWorld Helicopter crash that killed two Brits 'had cocaine in system'
Ron and Diane Hughes, from Cheshire, were tragically killed a year ago in a devastating helicopter crash - Ron's daughter has recalled a conversation they had before he died
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Jason Donovan harrowing overdose at Kylie's birthday and corset that saved him
Eighties heartthrob Jason Donovan has announced a new 31-date British tour in 2025, which will pick up at the point of his Doin' Fine 90 tour when he still had teenage girls falling at his feet
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Gran's cockroach-infested Peru prison hell after falling for cocaine scam
Patricia Baronowski-Schneider, 54, fell for a "business opportunity" and was tricked into delivering a suitcase to a man in Hong Kong. But when airport officials opened the bag it contained cocaine
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Cops find missing girl, 16, locked in secret basement beneath hidden trapdoor
A missing teen who was picked up by a 34-year-old before being taken to his home, raped and strangled has now been found. The 16-year-old girl was found behind a trapdoor
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Drug dealers staged robbery to scam homeless teenager and threatened to hurt mum
Abshir Ahmed and accomplice Yasir Hugogi utilised a trick from a Top Boy storyline to make their 19-year-old victim think he had lost the drugs and had to pay them £1,000
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Killer jailed after stabbing man to death and knifing 2 others in random attack
Antonio Tibere, 25, went on a 10-minute rampage as he prowled Handsworth in Birmingham three days before Christmas last year - and has now been jailed for 30 years
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Colombian Army captures cartel 'narco-sub' loaded with nearly 2kg of cocaine
The huge shipment of cocaine was found in 77 plastic bags on a semi-submersible vessel in the Pacific Ocean, with the cargo reportedly intercepted while being transported to Central America.
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Father Christmas brings down 'evil reindeer gang' as he leads police drugs bust
Video released by the Peruvian National Police on Saturday showed an officer in full festive garb, dressed up as Santa Claus, as he used a sledgehammer to break down the door to a building being used by drug dealers
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Switzerland considers legalising cocaine for recrational use in world-first
Switzerland has one of the highest rates of cocaine use in Europe, according to tests, but now one city's parliament is proposing to legalise the drug
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British millionaire's lover wore bomb vest as he was freed from kidnap ordeal
Fifteen masked men broke into the ranch complex of former British Honorary Consul Colin Armstrong, 78, on Saturday morning and kidnapped the millionaire and his Colombian girlfriend
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Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley shares heartbreaking reason he never touched drugs
Tony Hadley, 63, a singer in the 1980s pop group Spandau Ballet, says that he didn't dare to try any kind of drugs because his grandma scared him out of it
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Gang that forces victims to eat raw human hearts linked to Brit's kidnapping
The brutal Los Tiguerones gang, linked to the kidnap of 78-year-old British millionaire businessman Colin Armstrong in Mexico, forces new recruits to eat raw human hearts
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Lotto lout who blew staggering £10m lottery win - but has no regrets
Michael Carroll won big on the lottery and once ­bragged that he had slept with 4,000 women, but eventually the cash ran out and he had to go back to his old job as a bin man
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Lotto lout's sister died after cocaine binge on day of cousin's funeral
Zoe Carroll, who was given £1million when her brother scooped £10million on the National Lottery's Lotto game, died of a cardiac arrest due to cocaine use, her post mortem had found
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Number of people killed and injured in road crashes in UK hits record high
There were 1,757 vehicles involved in crashes in 2022 in which police blamed a drug-impaired driver, figures show. Officers are now catching almost 400 offenders a week
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Police pull over frozen meat lorry and are left gobsmacked by its contents
Officers say this is the biggest load of suspected cocaine that has ever been found by the Police Service of Northern Ireland with successful drugs busts in the area seeing a recent hike
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Driver sending mundane text about child's nappy killed Ryanair flight attendant
Kieran Cooney who killed Cinzia Ceravolo by dangerous driving was described by the judge as "a decent, hard working man [who] made a terrible consequence". Ms Ceravolo saved three boys' lives via organ donation
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Mum shot dead at home was 'trying to protect family from balaclava-clad gunman'
Lianne Gordon died after being shot in the head at her home in Hackney last week. The Old Bailey has now heard the mum was trying to protect her family at the time