article_snippet.sent: Father-of-two: Paul Doyle, 56, has been jailed after being unmasked as the head of drugs ring .
article_snippet.sent: A gangster who lived a life of luxury in a mansion near Premier League footballers has been jailed for 16 years after being unmasked as the head of a drugs ring.
article_snippet.sent: Police kept watch on the family’s home where Doyle chopped down the huge front hedge so Doyle could check for unwanted visitors outside.
article_snippet.sent: Doyle was eventually arrested during a raid on Doyle five-bedroom house after a major investigation into the supply of various drugs in the North of England, which culminated in the seizure of £15million of cocaine and a haul of heroin.
article_snippet.sent: Doyle admitted supplying class A and B drugs, between 2012 and 2014, plus money laundering and benefit fraud offences at Manchester Crown Court.
article_snippet.sent: Doyle now faces a proceeds of crime hearing.
article_snippet.sent: Police began secretly filming Doyle and started to track Doyle car.
article_snippet.sent: his car emerged Doyle helped finance a cocaine deal in which drugs were brought into the country by couriers who travelled to the UK from France on fishing boats.
article_snippet.sent: Up to 4.2lbs (1.9kg) of heroin and 170lbs (77kg) of cocaine landed in the UK - but police began arresting Doyle’s accomplices, and Doyle’s got directly involved in deals himself.
article_snippet.sent: Doyle’s organised a collection of 2.2lbs (1kg) of heroin in Wigan, and then started running a wholesale supply line in cannabis, involving up to 88lbs (40kg), and amphethamines, amounting to around  44lbs (20kg), to crime families in Barrow-in-Furness and Carlisle in Cumbria.
article_snippet.sent: Doyle’s was eventually caught in May last year with 6.6lbs (3kg) of amphetamines in Salford.
article_snippet.sent: Whilst in jail on remand police decoded conversations in which Doyle chatted about drugs - one in which Doyle talked about how a friend ‘wanted Doyle hoover back’ - linking Doyle to a Cumbrian heroin dealer who hid just an ounce of the drug inside Doyle Henry vacuum cleaner.
article_snippet.sent: Other recorded conversations heard Doyle use the codeword ‘downstairs’ for heroin, which police were able to work out because of the timing and context of conversations in which Doyle chatted about drugs - one in which he talked about how a friend ‘wanted his hoover back’ - linking him to a Cumbrian heroin dealer who hid just an ounce of the drug inside his Henry vacuum cleaner.
article_snippet.sent: He said Doyle once had a building supply business and when buildings were demolished He would broker on the stolen brick.
article_snippet.sent: Sentencing, Judge Richard Mansell QC told Doyle Doyle had ‘barefaced gall’ to claim benefits and added: ‘I’m quite satisfied that you played a lead role in all of your offences.
article_snippet.sent: Doyle described Doyle as ‘the head of an organised criminal gang’, who continued to orchestrate the business from behind bars because Doyle had ‘loyal servants working on the outside’.
highlights_snippet.sent: Admitted supplying  drugs,  money laundering and benefit fraud offences .
  