Nine West Country men jailed for more than 70 years for drugs supply

This machine produced £500,000 of ecstasy pills in a Bristol home Credit: SWROCU

Members of an organised crime group have been sentenced to a total of more than seventy years in prison after being caught supplying class A drugs.

Three of the gang, which was based around Bristol, were also found guilty of blackmailing businessmen as part of an illegal debt-collecting operation.

Police were contacted by one of their blackmail victims and put the group under surveillance.

Officers watched - and filmed - as they arranged the flow of cocaine and MDMA from London.

In a raid at one of the gangster's homes, police found a machine used for pressing the MDMA powder into ecstasy tablets.