Police believe the deaths of two men are drug-related.

Three arrested after suspected 'drug related' deaths

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Richard Steven Connelly (left) and Terry David Renyard (right)

Jersey Royal Court has sentenced Richard Steven Connelly, 41, and Terry David Renyard, 52, for attempting to smuggle drugs into the island.

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Sebastiano Sorrenti, 35, of Swindon, also gave drug dealers a method for making 140,000 tablets of the class C drug Etizolam.

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Footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas - seen here playing for Aberdeen - denied a charge of importing class B drugs as he appeared in court accused over an attempt to smuggle £600,000 of cannabis through Stansted Airport.
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The former Arsenal academy player has also had spells at Ipswich Town, Aberdeen and Queen's Park Rangers.

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Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found there were 5,448 deaths related to drug poisoning registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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A man with a £1.5 million property empire has pleaded guilty to supplying drugs and money laundering, the Met Police has said.

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A former prisoner at HMP Doncaster says the prison's attempts to stop drugs being smuggled inside won't tackle the root causes.

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The woman, from Middlesbrough, is being held under house arrest after being accused of smuggling £3.5m worth of cocaine into the UK from Mexico. 

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The men imported the drugs from South America in a shipment of bananas. It is believed to be one of the largest ever seizures of its type in the UK

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Almost half of the young people surveyed for a drugs review in Greater Manchester said they'd used vapes containing cannabis in the last year.

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Six men have been arrested after a half-tonne haul of cocaine worth £40 million was seized at Medmerry beach, near Selsey

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Dale Dunn, Jack Freeman, Jake Galea-Hughes and Graeme Rutherford were all arrested following a police operation on 25 April.

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Northumbria Police say they have reversed the effects of 19 overdoses since they introduced the Naloxone

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He conspired with a convicted drug dealer and used his position to give confidential information to help recover a drug debt worth more than £20,000.

Crooked cop raided evidence store for drugs

Timothy Ayers, from Jersey, was jailed at Jersey's Royal Court today (19 September). 

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