A gangster plotted to flood the north west with heroin, cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines after struggling to keep up the payments on the mortgage of his £800,000 home.
Back in 2004, shortly after being released from a seven-year sentence for drug dealing, Paul Doyle bought the £820,000 house in leafy Altrincham - even though neither he nor his wife had ever worked and had what a judge described as the ‘barefaced gall’ to claim £50,000 in state benefit.
After struggling to meet the £3,000 a month repayments on the mortgage - which Doyle obtained by claiming his wife was a £200,000 a year executive - the crook became involved in a series of major wholesale drug deals unravelled by surveillance operations involving police across the country.
Doyle, 56, formerly of Wainwright Road, Altrincham, is now beginning a 16-year-jail sentence after admitting supplying class A and B drugs between 2012 and 2014, plus money laundering, fraud and benefit fraud offences dating back to 2004, reports the Manchester Evening News.
Manchester Crown Court heard Doyle described as a’well-known’ and ‘colourful’ character, originally from Salford, whose other enterprises involved selling stolen bricks and doing ‘protection work’ in China and West Africa.
He had links to high-level international drugs importers and used a close-knit network of ‘loyal servants’ and safehouses to run his empire - even after being arrested and locked up on remand.
He was first arrested in 2013, for laundering £450,000 of cash and lying to loan companies to buy a BMW and maintain his flash image.
Whilst on bail the career crook helped finance a cocaine deal in which drugs were brought into the country by couriers who travelled to the continent on fishing trips.
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