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A gunman tried to pass off books wrapped in brown tape as kilogram blocks of cocaine during a sham drug deal in an alleyway. Charles Byers handed over the supposed drugs over in a Spider-Man rucksack.

The 'elaborate ruse' enabled him and a second man to walk away with the buyers' cash after shooting one of their number in the leg with a pistol fitted with a silencer. But a CCTV clip which caught him red-handed with the firearm which was used in the robbery ultimately led him, his girlfriend Emma Edwards and another conspirator, Andrew Struth, to prison.

Liverpool Crown Court heard last week that a man named David Sumner, whose current whereabouts are unknown, "made representations that he could supply kilograms of class A drugs" to an associate, Negus Nelson, during p

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