The Salford criminal family robbed a famous gang in Liverpool with cocaine worth 1 million British pounds in a brazen robbery. Cox’s gang is attacked in a carefully planned armed attack in the Liverpool team’s hideout, with one posing as a delivery driver.
Jason Cox, the leader of an organized crime gang, has conspired with another figure from the underworld to use secret tracking devices to locate him.
The Cox brothers, 35-year-old Jason and 33-year-old Craig, have joined forces with Liverpool criminal Richard Caswell, nicknamed “Will” because of his apparent resemblance to pop star Will Young, to prepare the plot. Employee Ben Monks-Gorton, 30, posed as a delivery driver, carrying an empty box and knocking on the front door before a brutal attack.
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Then Jason Cox, Craig Cox and Caswell, 40, stormed the house in Liverpool, dressed in balaclavas and armed with machetes and other weapons. Two men present were brutally attacked and dragged around the property, leaving the house covered in blood.
Minutes later, the Salford gang left, carrying several bags containing about 30 kilograms of cocaine, which is said to be worth about £ 1 million. Brothers Cox and Caswell are due to be convicted next month after admitting involvement in the robbery plot.
Richard Caswell
The identities of the members of the Liverpool team they have targeted cannot be revealed for legal reasons. Cox’s siblings, along with another brother, Lee Cox, 38, also admitted to being involved in a large-scale drug trade involving more than 20 kilograms of cocaine and 50 kilograms of cannabis.
Monks Gorton was in prison for six years and nine months for his involvement in the robbery plot. Michael Nevin, 35, a courier who describes himself as a “gangster carrier” for Cox’s gang, has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.
The Cox gang robbery and drug conspiracy were the latest underworld crimes to be uncovered by law enforcement hacking on the top-secret EncroChat network, commonly known as WhatsApp for Criminals. The Royal Court in Manchester has heard that the Cox gang has previously procured cocaine from the Liverpool team in the past.
Their associate Caswell, a member of the Liverpool gang previously linked to a series of car bombs in the city in 2003 and 2004, came up with a plan to rob or tax the gang and spoke to Jason Cox at EncroChat, prosecutors said. “Jason Cox and Richard Caswell have come up with a concerted plan to rob an organized crime group in Liverpool,” said prosecutor Alex Langhorn.
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“They have begun to take real steps to continue this conspiracy, to place vehicle trackers, to undertake a series of reconnaissance visits, to see where the hideout is, the quantities and when it is best to strike.” EncroChat, Caswell describes a member of the Liverpool gang they robbed as a “terrible dude”.
In a statement to Jason Cox, Caswell added: “If we take his driver, do you think he will be the man with access to a blunder with all this?” He added: “I would even agree to kill him if necessary.”
Discussions about using a tracking device to find the hideout were also revealed, with Jason Cox contacting a monitoring company in Manchester. Jason Cox asked Caswell, “Do you think this company is guarded by trackers?”
Lee Cox
“Yes,” said Caswell. “They’ve been doing this for years. If they suspect us, they’d like to put us on a lie detector. We need to be in place with this.”
In further discussions about the planned robbery, Jason Cox said he was “impatient”. Describing the Liverpool gang, Caswell said, “They’re breaking it right.”
In the days before the robbery, the gang made reconnaissance trips to Merseyside to try to find the hideout. The robbery is scheduled for the morning of Saturday, May 23, 2020. They met in Warrington before leaving for Liverpool to meet with Caswell.
Ben Monks-Gorton
Two men were “seriously injured” during the armed strike after Monks-Gorton went to the front door, posing as a delivery driver to trick residents into opening. His DNA was found on a Covid surgical mask left next to the front door, which fell during the attack.
One of the victims received a severe gaping wound that exposed his bone. About 13 kilograms of the 30 stolen cocaines were given to Nevin, who curated them for other criminals.
The stamped cocaine used by Liverpool OCG was found in a self-storage unit in Bury that is linked to Nevin. Jason Cox of Strawberry Close, Warrington; Craig Cox, no fixed address; Caswell, no fixed address; and Monks-Gorton, without a fixed address, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery.
Michael Nevin
Jason Cox, Craig Cox, Lee Cox of Oaklands Road, Salford and Michael Nevin of Egerton Road, Fallowfield, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis and conspiracy to possess criminal property, Caswell also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply of cocaine and heroin and possessing criminal property.
Defending Nevin, Rick Holland accepted that the defendant was a “very trusted courier.” In some messages at EncroChat, Nevin complains about the amount of reward he receives for his work.
He said Nevin had “no idea” that the cocaine had been stolen in a robbery. Innocent was in prison for nine years and nine months. Monks-Gorton’s lawyer, Adrian Farrow, said the defendant was a “paid official” brought in at the Eleventh Hour robbery, was unarmed and did not engage in violence.
Judge Patrick Field QC told him: “You voluntarily and foolishly participated in a well-planned and sophisticated robbery aimed at forcibly stealing a cocaine hideout held by a rival organized criminal group in Liverpool. However, I acknowledge that you are not responsible for planning or perfecting this crime, it is the role of others. “
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