EncroChat user 'Simple Creek' unmasked via messages referencing tarmacking business and chip shop near his house
Thomas Speed was identified as the user of the EncroChat handle "Simple Creek" after his supposedly secret messages showed him referencing a chip shop near to his house, as well as his tarmacking business. He and two other men, James Salkeld and Scott Roseau, were handed a combined total of more than 65 years behind bars this afternoon, Monday, having used the encrypted communications platform to traffic firearms and wholesale quantities of class A drugs.
Speed later arranged a meeting with "SkiBat" on April 14 by saying: "Go to the shops by ours mate. The Seabreeze chippy, I'll be there in 10." Speed's previous convictions include receiving three-and-a-half years for a class A drug trafficking in 2008. Alaric Walmsley, defending, told the court: "There have been large proportions of his life where he has engaged in legitimate and, to some degree, successful businesses.
"Mr Roseau got clean and fathered three children and took responsible for another with substantial needs. He had his life back on track, although the jury concluded that he was indeed Mystic Kangaroo."
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