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Redbridge 26-year-old jailed for supplying £6 million of cocaine

Police discovered 50kg of cocaine by following a blue bag (Credit: Met Police)

A 26-year-old from Redbridge has been jailed for helping supply more than £6 million of cocaine.

Joe Sawyer was sentenced to eight years in prison at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday, 4 January.

Chelmsford resident Lazarus Loizides, 27, was ordered to serve 11 years while a 31-year-old from Kent, Robert Beckley, was handed a four year four month sentence.

The trio were arrested on 6 October after police spotted Loizides put a blue bag into Sawyer’s van outside his address on Fieldhouse Close.

The pair drove off together and returned to Sawyer’s property separately over the next few hours.

At around 16.40 Beckley joined them and Sawyer handed him the blue bag.

Officers followed Beckley’s van and stopped him on the M25. They found five kilograms of cocaine inside the bag, which was on the passenger seat.

Back at Fieldhouse Close, Loizides was spotted carrying a heavy Sports Direct bag into a car and driving away.

Police tailed him to Islington where they arrested him at around 19.00 and found “a large quantity” of cash and a burner phone.

They searched his address on St Anthony’s Drive and found three kilograms of cocaine, expensive watches, receipts for high-value buys in Harrods, and £55,000 in cash.

Sawyer was the last to be arrested that evening. Officers found 24 kilograms of cocaine inside his bag and a further 17 kilograms of the class A drug underneath a secret floor in his van.

Police seized a total of 49 kilograms, which they say has an estimated street value of nearly £6 million.

All three men admitted guilt at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 25 November.

DCI Driss Hayoukane said: “The lengths these men went to try and conceal their criminal activities by having secret hides in their cars is not something an everyday person would even think to consider – but then again most everyday person wouldn’t even consider transporting almost 50kg of cocaine in their vehicles.

“We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, we are committed to putting handcuffs on those involved in drugs supply offences and making sure that they spend a significant amount of time in prison.”

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