Terence Clarke also boasted about having an AK47 assault rifle and offered a Skorpion sub-machine gun and an Uzi for sale on the encrypted platform.
A drugs and guns trafficker with global crime contacts bragged that he was the "best" in his city at producing crack cocaine. Terence Clarke also boasted about having an AK47 assault rifle and offered a Skorpion sub-machine gun and an Uzi for sale on encrypted communications platform EncroChat.
He was said to have been "told about various items" and then passed the details onto others. The weapons included assault rifles and semi-automatic handguns, such as a £12,000 Skorpion and an Uzi at £9,000. Clarke was found to have operated "county lines supplies throughout England and Wales", and discussed having "connections in Scotland" and a network of safehouses. The dad-of-one acted as a "broker" between buyers and sellers in deals for larger quantities of illegal drugs.
Top UK & World stories today Jeremy Rawson, defending, told the court: "He has learned his lesson. He realises that there will be a long separation from his family as a result. He is determined never to darken the door of the courts again. Sentencing, the Honorary Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Andrew Menary KC, said: "The offending is significantly aggravated by your past offending. The reality is that these periods of detention were just interruptions in your otherwise continuous trade of selling drugs over many years.
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