Scots kingpin caged after turning nursing home into large-scale drugs factory

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Scots kingpin caged after turning nursing home into large-scale drugs factory
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Mark Quinn, 58, turned an old nursing home into a drugs factory and now faces seven years in jail.

A boxing coach snared after a former nursing home was turned into a large-scale drugs factory has been jailed for seven years.

Lord Beckett told him: "This was drug dealing on a grand scale aggravated by a connection with serious and organised crime."This involved hundreds of kilogrammes of the drug in total with potential amount in excess of £10m." Officers initially seized a £3m drugs haul at a flat in Paisley, Renfrewshire in August of that year.In February 2014, police then kept tabs on a Ford Transit travelling from Scotland to Liverpool.

The authorities even used a van with his face plastered on the side in Spain's Costa del Sol in a bid to trace him.His lawyer said Quinn had also been involved in the building trade and had been part of a project to transform the nursing home into luxury flats.

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