A 19-week trial has now concluded
Two people from Nottingham are among a group to have been convicted after an investigation uncovered one of the UK's largest prison drug smuggling operations. The four-year investigation led to the conviction of a prison nurse and others who helped to smuggle drugs - thought to be worth more than £1 million.
The value of the spice, it was said, was estimated by prison experts to be around £1millon. Detective Sergeant Gareth Gent, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "As we started to dig into Hatfield’s associates and connections, little did we know that we would uncover such large-scale criminality.” Hatfield, 37, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to conspiracy to supply class A drugs, conspiracy to supply class B drugs, two counts of conspiracy to convey list A articles into prison , conspiracy to convey list B articles into prison and money laundering.
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