#Encrochat: Former champion boxer who helped £140m cocaine smuggling gang in EncroChat conspiracy is jailed for eight years
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A former professional boxer has been jailed for eights years for his part in a cocaine smuggling gang who plotted to import £140million of cocaine in the UK from Sierra Leone.
Ex-British Masters light heavyweight champion Carl 'Dynamite' Dilks used EncroChat, an encrypted communications platform, to traffic wholesale quantities of cocaine before the network was infiltrated by French police during 2020.
The dad-of-three, who used the handle 'Cherry Vape', was said to have turned to the drugs trade as he feared losing his family's home amid a downturn in his financial position during lockdown.
He is now facing eight years behind bars despite apparently only reaping 'paltry' rewards from his criminality.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Dilks worked as a 'commodities broker' in the supply of drugs via EncroChat together with his associate Darryn Schofield, a gang leader known as 'Thor'.
The 41-year-old defendant also directed others, including Neil Maguire, the user of the account 'Holy Book', to collect and deliver illicit class A substances and thousands of pounds in cash.
Messages showed his involvement in discussions to supply at least 8kg of cocaine with the likes of 'Golden Lad', 'Phone Fixer' and 'Five Fingers', leading to his arrest at his home address on Netherton Green on November 29, 2023.
Alex Langhorn, prosecuting, said: 'The crown say that he was his own man, operating his own deals as and when he chose.
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