Mental health nurse exposed as drug lord who lost £20m cocaine delivery

A mental health nurse has been fired after masking herself as a drug lord embroiled in a brutal gang war.

52-year-old Alan Tobin was jailed for 20 years after police seized £20 million of class A drugs from a van on the M6 ​​motorway. This is the largest land seizure in British history.

Pusher, who lost his 90% deposit, was shot near his family's Prescott home.

When arrested in 2020, it was revealed that Tobin, from Widnes, Cheshire, is also a licensed mental health nurse for his Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

He used it to cover up his role as kingpin of the drug empire he runs with his 40-year-old brother John his Tobin.

Now, the virtual Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Fitness Practice Committee has ruled that his life in the underworld "undermined" his fitness to practice.

decided to fire Tobin and impose an 18-month provisional suspension. This covers his right to appeal within 28 days of the order being issued.

The NMC said there was no "clinical concern" or evidence of harm to patients, but of course claimed there were "inherent risks" to Tobin's role in organized crime.

The severity of the father of five's drug conviction was determined to mean there was a "repeated risk."

His actions violated his NMC's rules of professional conduct, requiring nurses and midwives to "always maintain the reputation of their profession."

In a statement filed for the proceedings, Tobin wrote: :Crime News

Encrypted Messaging Tobin, known as "CapeRocket" on his system EnchroChat, announced in April 2021 that his three gangs had imprisoned along with the member and his 19-year-old brother. 8 months.

The Tobin brothers sold cannabis, heroin, ketamine and cocaine in the North West of England.

He also sold to other gangs in Scotland, London, North Wales, Cornwall, West Yorkshire, Cumbria, Manchester and Humberside.

While Alan and John were in charge, they hired Robbie Broughton, Brian McKillan and Simon Leach to run their day-to-day operations.

They ran a successful and profitable criminal organization from 2016 until his 2018 detective launched his three investigations against clients. Aug 2, 2018 – Hidden in a van under specially modified floorboards.

A man named Jamie Simpson had been instructed to transport drugs from Kent to Warrington, but was under surveillance at the time.

John His Tobin DNA was Found deposited in bubble wrap in one of his drug blocks. He saw it put into a box during the packing process.

His gang disintegrated after a detective served a warrant in Widnes, Warrington, St. Helens, September 9, 2020, and all five pleaded guilty to a string of drug offenses. did.

The Tobin brothers were also involved in a shooting plot that inflicted life-altering injuries on an innocent man.

Gunman Aaron Bretherton, disguised as a pizza delivery driver, shot a man in the leg on his front door in Warrington in April 2020.

Victim's tibia and I shattered my fibula and needed several metal surgeries: pins and a steel cage to reconstruct my leg.

Alan Tobin sent a message discussing serious harm to those associated with organized crime groups.

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Messages exchanged by the brothers using EncroChat describe how Tobin was embroiled in a battle with North Korea's most notorious crime boss over his £20 million loss. is showing.

Broughton sentenced him to eight years and six months, McKillian to him to six years and four months, and Leach to him eight years.

In September 2021, Alan Tobin was found guilty of conspiring to cause serious bodily harm in connection with a shooting, and he was also jailed for eight years.

John was sentenced to an additional two and a half years in prison for participating in the activities of an organized crime group, serving a term of over 22 years.

Oldroyd was found guilty of conspiring to supply cocaine and he received 14 years and 3 months in prison. Simpson, 31, said he spent 11 and a half years in jail on the same charges.

Leon Cullen was arrested in the United Arab Emirates last May after he was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison and nearly two years on the run.

Meanwhile, brother Anthony Karen spent his 27 years in captivity in 2019.

Cheshire Police Chief Detective Inspector Mike Evans said: They were offered stronger protections to prevent being identified as leaders of organized crime groups.

"At first, they sat down and displayed a lavish lifestyle, hiring Broughton, Leach, and McKillan to run their business and get paid for their criminal activities.

} "For a while their criminal gang seemed to grow bigger and bigger, but they began to carry out a number of operations against the gangs they were supplying drugs with.

“Once they started seizing large amounts of drugs and cash, problems arose and Tobin quickly began to surface as they had huge debts.

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