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A mum who helped her gangster partner carry on his cocaine dealing business from prison was busted when police raided a north Manchester flat and brought down a £1.8m drugs ring.

Officers, who had been covertly watching members of the operation for almost six months, swooped on the property in Crumpsall in October last year after mum-of-three Lisa Prescott was seen meeting with a gang member. In a series of raids on the gang's premises, officers seized 15 kilos of cocaine, six kilos of amphetamine, two kilos of heroin, and 7,000 ecstasy tablets. They also discovered £75,000 in cash and 224 rounds of ‘viable ammunition.’

One of those they arrested was Prescott, 40, who was then the partner of James Close. Close, who was recently handed a 36-year sentence after being found

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