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Six members of a record-breaking cocaine smuggling network have been jailed after moving £2 BILLION worth of high-purity cocaine hidden inside pallets of frozen chicken. Prosecutors called it the largest drugs operation ever uncovered in England and Wales—a 15-tonne pipeline that stretched from a powerful Mexican cartel all the way to the streets of Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow and beyond.

Between March and December 2022, this gang imported 318 pallets of chicken through a legitimate Dutch haulage company that had no idea it was carrying blocks and blocks and blocks of cartel cocaine. Behind the respectable front of a food delivery business, the organisation—led by a shadowy kingpin known only as “Fendi”—used encrypted communications, safe houses and trusted couriers to flood the UK with Class A drugs.

⚠️ Inside this investigation you’ll see:

How detectives followed a trail of frozen chicken shipments to uncover a 15-tonne cocaine empire.

The locked room in Beeston, Leeds, where officers found £19 million of cocaine and crystal meth, plus a cartel note referencing Mexico’s fearsome Nueva Generacion Cartel.

The warehouse in Redditch where the gang repackaged cartel cocaine for distribution across the UK.

The dramatic arrests, including couriers driving cocaine north to Scotland and the discovery of 57kg of cocaine worth £5.8 million in a Dewsbury flat.

Courtroom revelations of secret encrypted phones, millions in profits, and the ruthless efficiency of a network capable of importing hundreds of kilos at a time.

Sentences Handed Down

Stephen Rayner (31) – “Trusted lieutenant” to Fendi, 20 years

Cherie-Anne Rayner (30) – 15 years

Liam Harrington (39) – 3 years

Megan Budden (23) – 2 years

Steven Gibson (41) – 12 years

Darren Hunter (30) – 6 years

Prosecutors say confiscation proceedings will now target the gang’s hidden fortune to strip them of their ill-gotten gains.

This is not just another drug bust. It’s a rare inside look at how international cartels exploit UK supply chains, turning everyday goods into Trojan horses for billions of pounds in cocaine. From Mexican cartel branding to encrypted communications, this case reveals the industrial scale of Britain’s cocaine crisis—and the relentless police work required to stop it.

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