Sunday, July 20, 2025 - A 65-year-old grandma described by police as a “gangster granny”, who orchestrated a family-run organised crime group, has been sentenced for dealing drugs with a street value of £80m across the UK.
Deborah Mason, who had the nickname “Queen Bee”, and seven
other members of the gang, were sentenced at Woolwich crown court
in London on Friday, July 18, for their involvement in supplying
nearly a tonne of cocaine over seven months.
A group of couriers collected packages of imported cocaine
and drove them across London as well as Bradford, Leicester, Birmingham,
Bristol and Cardiff, between April and November 2023, the court heard.
The drugs had an estimated wholesale value of between £23m
and £35m and a street value of £80m.
The ringleader spent her profits on designer goods and was
looking to travel to Turkey to have cosmetic surgery, while young mothers who
were part of the gang took their young children to pick-ups.
Mason, who directed other members of the gang and was in
contact with an upstream supplier called Bugsy, was found guilty of conspiracy
to supply class A drugs and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Judge Shorrock told Mason: “You were effectively the site
foreman working under the direction of a site manager.
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