Eight people were arrested during coordinated raids across Merseyside on suspicion of involvement in a widespread, multi-million pound conspiracy to produce and supply class A and B drugs A NWROCU police unit arrest a suspect in Prescot, Merseyside (Image: Liverpool ECHO)

Silence. Then, the tranquillity of the dark, frosty morning is shattered by the thunderous crash of a battering ram relentlessly pounding into the reinforced front door of a suspect tied to a drug lab conspiracy thought to be one of the biggest the UK has ever witnessed.

At 7am sharp, squads from the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) executed a series of synchronised raids across Liverpool, Knowsley and Sefton, zeroing in on a local gang suspected of manufacturing and distributing class A and B d

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