Five gang members - Lloyd Cross, David Bilsland, Paul Bowes, Ryan McPhee and Gerard Carbin - were sentenced at the High Court of Glasgow today.
Gang members associated with a Scots crime boss who masterminded a plot to smuggle £100 million of cocaine from Ecuador in boxes of bananas have been sentenced to a total of 29 years in prison.
Fruit market trader David Bilsland, 68, who pleaded guilty to a charge of agreeing to import cocaine on August 29, 2024, was also sentenced to six years. Each hood now be subject to confiscation action under the Proceeds of Crime legislation to recover monies illegally gained, and be subject to serious crime prevention orders - designed to disrupt organised crime activity - to be considered at a future hearing.
Jamie Stevenson jailed Messages suggested Cross and Stevenson met in a park to discuss plans in April 2020, while Bilsland arranged banana consignments and colluded with Cross to use their businesses to fund the importation of drugs, with recovery vehicles used to deliver and collect cash, the court heard.
Deputy Crown Agent Kenny Donnelly, who leads the fight against serious organised crime for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service , said: “James Stevenson and his criminal associates were involved in drug trafficking on an industrial and global scale. “It was clear from the EncroChat messages that, as the ringleader, he directed the group. The cocaine they were planning to distribute would have undoubtedly contributed to misery in our communities.
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