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Quote:'Family drugs gang' granny Angela Collingbourne jailedBBC:
'A grandmother has been jailed for six years after becoming "second in command" to a drugs gang
headed by her two sons.
Angela Collingbourne, 51, helped the group to sell more than £2.7m of cocaine in Newport, with her son
directing operations from prison. Seven other members were also jailed for conspiracy to supply class A
drugs on Friday at Newport Crown Court.
Angela Collingbourne (top left) and seven other members of the drugs gang were jailed on Friday.
Another eight had already been jailed in March, bringing the total to 16.
The gang, from Newport, dealt the drug from a garage called NP19 Tyres, with video showing thousands of
pounds passing through but only a handful of cars being repaired.
The court was told Collingbourne, who is a grandmother, racked up a "number of convictions" for shoplifting,
driving and a public order offence before becoming responsible for managing the gang's funds and facilitating
-and maintaining control of the mobile telephone trading line with 4,000 customers.
Another eight members, including Angela Collingbourne's sons, were jailed in March.
Prosecutor Andrew Jones said: "She was a middle tier manager of the organisation."
She denied being "a trusted lieutenant of this organised crime group, the second-in-command" -but was convicted
by a jury. Richard Barton, defending, said Collingbourne was acting out of "mother's love" and trying to provide for
her three sons -the youngest of which has now lost "three fifths of his remaining family" following the convictions.
The court was told Collingbourne became estranged from her "racist" parents after they did not approve of her
relationship. Judge Daniel Williams told Collingbourne: "During your trial you portrayed yourself as a victim, fighting
bigotry and injustice -but the jury saw through you.
"You dismissed your crimes as evidence of your own victim-hood.
"You were counting and banking the vast profits from this operation.
"You began to believe that you were unstoppable."
'Depressing'
The gang was arrested following a year-long investigation, Operation Finch, which involved surveillance and secret
recordings. Collingbourne's son Jerome Nunes, 28, and Blaine Nunes, 26, were jailed for 12 and 14 years.
Judge Williams said it was "depressing" that Jerome Nunes was able to direct the operation from his prison cell using
hidden mobile phones, while serving a sentence for possession of cocaine with intent to supply.
The gang sourced drugs from Merseyside, with Matthew Croft regularly visiting Liverpool to meet "up-stream suppliers",
the court heard. Police devices recorded Tia Donovan-Jones, 19, counting cash and inputting postcodes for drug deals.
She would accompany her partner Thomas Allison to drug deals in her pyjamas and had ambitions of buying a £500,000
house with him. A raid recovered Versace, Prada, Bulgari and Louis Vuitton clothing.
Sentenced on Friday:
Angela Collingbourne: six years
Tia Donovan-Jones: two years in a young offenders' institution
Khaleen Hussain: six years
Liam Slade: one year
Thomas Jones: four years
Rhys Jones: four years with concurrent four months for cannabis production
Joshua Southall: eight months
Matthew Croft: seven years and four months
Sentenced on 29 March:
Blaine Nunes: 14 years
Jerome Nunes: 12 years
Preston Killoran: eight years, eight months
Thomas Allison: 10 years
Kieran Vodden: seven years, four months
Ashley Lloyd: six years
Joel Clark: six years
Daniel Richardson: five years'
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