Richard Caswell was jailed this month for the part he played in a violent drug raid in the height of the UK's first major lockdown.
Neighbours of a notorious crime lord lamented as they once deemed him to be, 'one of the quiet lads of the estate'.
EncroChat messages intercepted by police later revealed that Caswell had tipped off Jason Cox, head of the Salford-based Cox crime family, about the stash-house and the two had devised the robbery plot with Jason's brother, Craig Cox, and associate Ben Monks-Gorton. The following day another huge blast rocked Bulford Road, Fazakerley, close to another address linked to Mr Lynch's brother.
But detectives secured a major breakthrough after DNA analysis of the twisted wreckage of the vehicles used in the bombings matched Caswell. He was duly arrested, and to add to his woes police found a haul of firearms was at the house he was living in at Newman Street, Sandhills. Before the audacious escape bid could come off he was detained in the grounds of the prison and thrown into segregation. In April, 2005, Caswell was jailed for 17 years for his role in the bombings and possession of firearms.
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