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February 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Dennis Kelly, 62, hid in the Costa Del Sol for five years after the plot was discovered in 2005
- Drugs baron jailed for murdering a newsagent in 1983
- Haul bound for Liverpool intercepted in Amsterdam
- Dennis’ son James jailed for 19 years for his role in plot
By
Rob Cooper
Last updated at 8:03 PM on 17th February 2012
Jailed: Drugs baron Dennis Kelly who hid in the Costa Del Sol for five years before he was discovered
A drugs baron who plotted to flood Britain with £166m of ‘staggeringly high purity’ cocaine has been told he is likely to die in jail.
Convicted murderer Dennis Kelly, 62, planned to import 1.6tonnes of coke hidden in tins of asparagus.
When the plot was uncovered by police in 2005 he went on the run for five years hiding in the Costa Del Sol.
The drugs – which were around 92 per
cent pure – had a street value of £83million but their value could have doubled if
they were diluted with other chemicals.
The Class A cargo had been shipped from Peru to Rotterdam before being moved to Amsterdam. However, police intercepted the haul before it was sent to Liverpool.
The drugs baron ran the Merseyside end of the operation along with his son James as part of a ‘family affair’. He has been given 27 years behind bars.
Kelly and his gang were expecting to take a quarter of the haul themselves.
When police uncovered the plot in November 2005, Kelly fled and left his family to face justice.
While his father was lying low as one of Merseyside’s most wanted criminals James Kelly pleaded guilty to his part in the operation and, in 2007, was jailed for 19 years.
His sister Sarah got a suspended prison sentence for concealing £29,000 of his ill-gotten cash found in a rucksack at her home.
But Dennis Kelly, also known as Dennis O’Brien, was tracked down in the Costa Del Sol resort of Calahonda and arrested in December 2010.
Upon his return to Britain he was immediately jailed for breaching the terms of his lifelong licence for the murder of Toxteth newsagent Billy Osu in 1983.
Hideout: Calahonda, Costa del Sol where Dennis Kelly was hiding until 2010 when he was brought back to Britain
At the beginning of his trial last month prosecutor Anne Whyte QC, told jurors: ‘He had the wherewithal, the guile and the means to support himself for the five years before his apprehension.
‘That took precedence over the on-going prosecution against members of his own family.
‘By the end of this trial you will be sure what motivated him [to stay away] – greed, criminality, the profits and the desire not to be caught.’
His trial for conspiracy to import Class A drugs lasted for six weeks and saw dozens of witnesses called.
But the jury of seven women and five men took just over seven hours to find him guilty.
Marguerite Russell, defending, pointed out that at least Kelly had not given evidence and therefore not lied on oath.
She made a plea for clemency, saying: ‘Please offer a little glimmer of hope for someone of his age otherwise it will mean a sentence of life – complete life.’
Judge John Roberts said: ‘You kept, to quote the prosecution’s words, “under the radar” as the planner and director of operations.
‘You commissioned the drug from the source while your son James travelled extensively in Europe.
‘You and he had, in reality, a working partnership of equals. I am satisfied you were both right at the top of the UK supply chain.
‘You were also prepared to lend money to others to allow them to participate in the wicked trade of drug supply.
‘What was contained in those tins of asparagus was cocaine of a staggeringly high purity.
‘This case is so serious that only a very long sentence of imprisonment can be imposed given the nature of the offence and the breathtaking scale of it.’
He said Kelly could be expected to serve half of whatever sentence he passed, though he warned Kelly, of Stanfordham Drive, Garston: ‘Whether you will actually be released will depend on your status at that time so far as a life sentence for murder is concerned.
‘The sentence I pass upon you is one of 27 years imprisonment. That sentence will begin immediately.’
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Bye bye scum.
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He should have been HUNG in 83, end of story, now we have to keep him, bring back the ROPE
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Always a delight to see a baddy get what they deserve.
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If there’s demand, there’s a requirement to fill that need. He is just one of the cogs that gets the drugs from the fields into users’ hands. He was just doing a job. Quite well too, judging by the purity of the cocaine.
As far as I see it, that’s the better part of GBP166,000,000 that could have gone straight into government coffers. If the government set up a specific department to import, test and distribute high-quality drugs, the users win and so does the public at large.
While I don’t do drugs, I lost a friend to a toxic OD from poor-quality drugs.
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Quote “has been told he is likely to die in jail” SHOULD have been told HE WILL die on the end of a rope– IMMINENTLY
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The sentence should begin after the life sentence is completed, not immediately.
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So it seems that this man has been jailed fror longer for the drugs offence than he was for murder. There is something deeply broken in our criminal justice system for that to be the case.
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Convicted murderer! Now try to tell me that it is better that he was not executed.
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No parole whatsoever at any time, then after twenty years if he is still alive, offer him a chemical euthanasia death.
Don’t ever release him, he has nothing to lose regarding committing further killings in revenge.
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This is just one man. On a big planet. Full of drugs. Will it make a difference? The answer is no. You’ll never get rid of this problem, So much so I don’t have a clue why you try. But then that’s how smart humans really are I guess. To get rid of drugs you need to destroy the source genetically, Until you do that your efforts are all but futile. But you can’t do that, Can you because you want the pharmaceutical companies money. You greedy *****.
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