Liverpool Cocaine Bust: Police Release Video Of Sentenced Dealer Throwing Drugs From Car

Watch: Liverpool Drugs Kingpin Throws Cocaine From Moving Car

Footage showing a Merseyside drug dealer throwing £120,000 worth of cocaine from a moving car has been released by police.

Matthew Mayor tossed 2kg of the drug from the window of a Mercedes while being followed by police as part of an 18-month investigation of the Whitney drugs gang in Liverpool.

Mayor was jailed for eight years and four months on a charge of conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Thirteen people from the 'Whitney gang' were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court for a combined total of 80 years in prison.

The gang, led by Paul Whitney, 32, is thought to have virtually controlled the entire supply of cocaine in North Liverpool.

During the investigation into the Whitney drugs gang officers caught another member, Emma McKenzie, attempting to hide wraps of cocaine inside a child's nappy bag as police searched her house.

McKenzie's mother, Mary McCabe, was also followed by detectives, who found a stolen SA80 assault rifle and 1,200 rounds of ammunition in the boot of her car. The gun had been stolen from an army base in 2005.

Paul Whitney admitted conspiracy to supply class A drugs. He was jailed for nine years and four months.

His father Leslie Whitney and his girlfriend, Emma McKenzie, admitted the same charge and were jailed for seven years and six months, and two years, three months respectively.

McCabe was jailed for eight years on the same charge.

Carole Whitney, Leslie Whitney's estranged wife, was convicted of conspiracy and possessing nearly 50,000 tablets of the class C drug TFMPP. Described as the 'banker' of the group she was also claiming disability benefits. She received an eight-year sentence.

Lisa Whitney was jailed for four years. Michael O'Toole was jailed for eight years, Gary Edwards, for four years, and Wayne Hincks for six years, eight months. Neil Brady, Michael Waters and Thomas Dowd received sentences of six years and nine months, five years and four months, and five years and two months respectively.

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