Jul 18, 2025 11:24 PM
https://news.sky.com/story/woman-dubbed-...n-13398621
INTRO: A 65-year-old woman dubbed "gangster granny" by police has been jailed for running a UK-wide drug-dealing operation. Deborah Mason - known as 'Queen Bee' - and seven other members of the family-run gang were sentenced to a total of 106.5 years at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Friday.
The group imported almost a tonne of cocaine - with an estimated street value of £80m - over seven months. Mason spent her profits on designer goods, including a Gucci lead and collar for her cat, and planned to travel to Turkey for cosmetic procedures.
The ringleader was in "close contact" with an upstream supplier called Bugsy using an encrypted app and directed other members of the gang as they drove packages of imported cocaine to locations across England. Mason was found guilty of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
"You recruited members of your own family - as a mother, you should have been setting an example for your children and not corrupting them."
Prosecutor Charlotte Hole said earlier that Mason "recruited both her family members - her sister and her children - as well as partners and friends of her children, to a network of at least 10 individuals."
Mason and the other eight defendants made multiple trips to collect and drop off imported cocaine from Harwich Port and other locations. Some of the gang members took their young children with them as they couriered the packages... (MORE - details)
Animal Kingdom: How to be Smurf (Ellen Barkin) ... https://youtu.be/FVQf3qu-ATk
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INTRO: A 65-year-old woman dubbed "gangster granny" by police has been jailed for running a UK-wide drug-dealing operation. Deborah Mason - known as 'Queen Bee' - and seven other members of the family-run gang were sentenced to a total of 106.5 years at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Friday.
The group imported almost a tonne of cocaine - with an estimated street value of £80m - over seven months. Mason spent her profits on designer goods, including a Gucci lead and collar for her cat, and planned to travel to Turkey for cosmetic procedures.
The ringleader was in "close contact" with an upstream supplier called Bugsy using an encrypted app and directed other members of the gang as they drove packages of imported cocaine to locations across England. Mason was found guilty of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
"You recruited members of your own family - as a mother, you should have been setting an example for your children and not corrupting them."
Prosecutor Charlotte Hole said earlier that Mason "recruited both her family members - her sister and her children - as well as partners and friends of her children, to a network of at least 10 individuals."
Mason and the other eight defendants made multiple trips to collect and drop off imported cocaine from Harwich Port and other locations. Some of the gang members took their young children with them as they couriered the packages... (MORE - details)
Animal Kingdom: How to be Smurf (Ellen Barkin) ... https://youtu.be/FVQf3qu-ATk