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A drugs gang spotted burying cocaine in woodland areas has been taken down.

Yesterday, seven people were sentenced for their part in a £1.6 million drugs racket , after Greater Manchester Police launched a surveillance operation into the outfit.

Lee Campbell headed up the gang, taking the reins from his brother Thomas Campbell, who was brutally murdered in his own home. Coleen Campbell , his ex-wife, had plotted with a team of robbers who pounced on him as he walked through his front door in Mossley, Tameside , before they tortured him to death in a horrific killing.

Manchester Crown Court heard that GMP launched Operation Kilowatt into the Campbell family organised crime group. Investigators identified a 'graft line', the mobile phone number used to supply dru

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