Crack network smashed as dealer is jailed
A major UK crack cocaine network was smashed as a drug dealer was jailed for 14 years.
Peter Aubrey Wilson, 40, of Marbrook Court, Lewisham, south-east London, was imprisoned for drugs and money laundering offences at Croydon Crown Court.
It followed a six month surveillance operation which saw undercover detectives travelling to Jamaica, New York and Miami.
Wilson was eventually caught red-handed along with another man, Joseph Newman, 41, in a flat in Brockley, south-east London, in August last year.
They were preparing two kilos of crack cocaine with a street value of £250,000 in a microwave oven in the flat's kitchen.
Wilson's common law wife, Lisa Murray, 31, of Bramdean Crescent, Lewisham, was today sentenced to three years in jail for money laundering.
Their friend, Beverley Tracey, 38, of Exford Road, Lee, received a two year community rehabilitation order for "assisting another person to retain the benefits of drug trafficking".
Tracey worked at the National Westminster Bank in Greenwich where she was holding a safety deposit box.
When police opened it they found £122,750 in cash which proved to be proceeds from Wilson's drugs trafficking.
In September this year three men and a woman who were also involved in the gang were sentenced to a total of 26 years for drugs offences at the court.
Among them was Newman, of Bovill Road, Lewisham, who was sentenced to eight years for the production of drugs.
So far a total of £200,000 in drug money has been seized from the gang.
