Drug gang who filmed their attacks jailed

A gang of drug enforcers from Devon have been jailed after they filmed themselves attacking customers who owed them money.

Thomas Kennedy and Fabian McAllister used their mobile phones to video them slapping and punching drug users, and stubbing a lighted cigarette into the face of one victim. They also filmed their friend Greg Coombes kicking a man unconscious after they had kidnapped him from his home and driven him to an isolated country lane.

The three men sold heroin and cocaine on a wholesale basis direct to users and used violence and humiliation to force them to pay.They operated throughout North and Mid Devon and sold thousands of pounds worth of drugs in Bideford, Barnstaple, South Molton and Tiverton.

On Friday morning Thomas Kennedy and Fabian McAllister were jailed by a judge at Exeter Crown Court for more than nine years each. The same judge jailed Greg Coombes last month for four years.