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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Kyle Enos: Man who made and sold poisonous diet pills is jailed
A man who made and sold poisonous diet pills has been jailed. DNP is poisonous to humans and has been banned for human consumption in the UK. The industrial chemical, which is officially known as 2,4-Dinitrophenol, has been illegally sold as a pill for weight loss, according to police. Kyle Enos, 33, from Maesteg, Bridgend, was jailed for three years on Thursday after a multi-agency investigation. DNP can cause serious physical side effects or death, according to the Food Standards Agency. Enos was found to have purchased the pure form sodium salt of the powder from China via the dark web. He made the pills using cutting agents and a pill press in his bedroom and advertised them on a website he had made. After receiving orders via email, he would ship the products within the UK and beyond, disguising them as vitamins and minerals. Following the investigation, he was charged with multiple drug offences and pleaded guilty at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on 1 May. 'Extremely ill or even dying' He was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court for one count of member of public import/acquire/possess/use of a regulated substance without licence, one count of supply regulated substance to member of public without verifying licence and one count of supply of regulated poison by person other than a pharmacist. He was also found to have failed to comply with a serious crime prevention order (SCPO) after a previous conviction for the supply of the Class A drug Fentanyl. Detective Constable Kieran Morris, of South Wales Police's regional organised crime unit (ROCU) Tarian, said Enos was supplying the pills "with no safety precautions in place", which could have led to buyers "becoming extremely ill or even dying". "Tarian ROCU are committed to safeguarding members of the public not only within our region, but across the United Kingdom and beyond," he added. Read more from Sky News: Alison Abbott, head of the National Crime Agency's prisons and lifetime management unit, said SCPOs were "a powerful tool" to help prevent those convicted of "serious offences" from reoffending after their release from prison. "This case should serve as a warning to others," she added. "As we did with Enos, we will actively monitor all those who are subject to such orders, and they will stay on our radar even after they are released from jail."
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Man who sold diet pills made from poison jailed
A man who sold diet pills on the internet which were actually poison has been jailed for three years. Kyle Enos, 33, had only been out of prison for a few months for selling fentanyl online when he bought the drug 2, 4 Dinotrophenol, or DNP, on the dark web from suppliers in India and China. He pressed it into pills in his bedroom in Maesteg, Bridgend. Cardiff Crown Court heard DNP is a regulated substance classed as both a poison and a secondary explosive that has caused at least 34 deaths in the UK. Judge Simon Mills told Enos his website gave the impression that the tablets were produced in "some sort of professional laboratory by people in white coats and qualifications and expertise". Officers raided Enos' property on Station Road in Maesteg on 25 July 2024 and found 2.5kg of orange powder and a machine used to press it into pill form. Enos admitted a total of eight charges at Cardiff Magistrates Court including possessing 2, 4 DNP, supplying the drug and supplying a regulated poison. He had also admitted five charges of failing to comply with a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) handed to him following his fentanyl convictions. In 2018 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for supplying "significant amounts" of the opioid, fentanyl to a total of 166 contacts. Four of those contacts, including Jack Barton, 23, a Cardiff University student, and Arran Rees, 34, from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, died. No charges were brought in relation to their deaths as it could not be said with certainty Enos had supplied the fentanyl. Having served some of his eight-year sentence, he was released on licence, in 2021, but was recalled to prison in June 2022, before being released again in August 2022. Organised crime group sentenced after drugs bust Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets £250m drug bust warning to criminals, say police Under the terms of his SCPO he was not allowed to sell products online or in a virtual marketplace; he was not allowed to access the dark web and had to notify a National Crime Agency (NCA) officer about possessing mobile phones and laptops and creating his own internet page. Enos pleaded guilty to five failures to comply with his SCPO having used a laptop to access the dark web to set up a Proton email account with end-to-end encryption and creating up a website selling DNT. The court was shown screengrabs of his online marketplace which included suggestions of products customers "may also like" giving the impression of it being a legitimate pharmacy. He took payment for the drugs by bank transfer, bitcoin and other cryptocurrency from customers around the world, including as far away as New Zealand. Enos has refused access to police to some of his devices. DNP is the drug which led to the death of Eloise Parry, 21, at hospital in Wrexham, in 2015. The Glyndwr University student, died after taking eight capsules. In bodycam footage shown to the court the powder can be seen in a washing up bowl on his bedroom floor next to an empty pizza box. Underwear can also be seen next to his bed by the pill press machine and another washing up bowl filled with pills. Judge Simon Mills said he wanted the footage to be released to the media for members of the public to be made aware of the unsanitary conditions in which the pills were made. "You were selling poison to the general public," said Judge Mills. "Your pharmacy was in fact your house or flat and you were preparing and pressing the pills you were selling to the general public on a filthy piece of equipment amongst training shoes and discarded underwear." He was sentenced to a total of 36 months in prison. "You have a propensity for selling dangerous substances to people," said Judge Mills, adding: "This is a habit that you must stop." "The court doesn't know the full extent of the harm that you did by peddling this horrendous substance. "If any of your product is still out there in the community and it can be shown to have killed someone, you should face an investigation for manslaughter, but hopefully that will not happen." A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing will be held later this year.
Telegraph
20-05-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
Crackdown on crime bosses running their empires from jail
Crime bosses are to face new court-ordered curbs to prevent them running criminal empires from their prison cells. An independent review into sentencing will recommend on Thursday that criminals should be subject to court orders while still in prison so that National Crime Agency and police investigators can open up their bank accounts, ban contact with named associates and intercept communications. These serious crime prevention orders (SCPOs) would also force them to reveal any documents or answer any questions, including names of associates, by investigating officers. If they were found to have breached the orders, they could face up to five years extra in jail. At present, SCPOs can only last for a maximum of five years and do not kick in until after a criminal is released from prison. David Gauke, the former Tory justice secretary, believes that as well as disrupting their crime business, the orders could provide police officers with leads and insights into the jailed bosses' criminal networks. The moves will be allied to a new criminal receivership scheme to expand the powers of law enforcement to seize and sell all the assets of offenders who have made millions from their criminal enterprises. Mr Gauke said: 'Serious and organised criminals should not be able to run a criminal enterprise from prison, nor return to a life of wealth when they are released. Put simply, crime must not pay. 'The Government should strengthen existing financial monitoring tools, and consider a new system to enable them to seize all assets to effectively punish offenders who have benefited from a life of crime.' Ministers are concerned that confiscation orders, meant to take back money made from crime, are not working as well as they should. While there is thought to be a pile of potential criminal assets worth more than £2.7 billion, only around £214 million is currently considered recoverable. Under the receivership scheme, a court-appointed receiver would be able to take control of any criminal's money and property to make them pay back for their crimes. Unlike current orders, all assets, both legally and illegally earned over the course of an offender's life, would be covered. It would be a form of criminal bankruptcy, without offering any debt relief, making it a deliberately severe and uncompromising form of punishment. Crime bosses inside jail are known to control much of the sale and flow of drugs into jails, many imported by drones, because of the huge profits to be made from selling them in prisons. Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, said even high-security jails have ceded their air space to drug drones in a move that threatens national security. The proposed crackdown comes alongside proposals, revealed this week by The Telegraph, to deport foreign offenders as soon as they are convicted in a bid to tackle prison overcrowding. Burglars, drug dealers and offenders convicted of assault who have been sentenced to under three years in prison will be removed from the UK as 'soon as operationally possible' rather than serving their time in Britain, as is currently the case. The sentencing review aims to enable the Government to avoid running out of prison cells, with forecasts that it will be 9,500 spaces short by spring 2026, even with its £4.7 billion prison-building programme. Other measures to be recommended include the release of prisoners as little as a third of the way through their sentences if they behave well, as revealed last week by The Telegraph. There will also be a presumption against sending criminals to jail for under one year and greater use of community punishments, with a major expansion of electronic tagging to create digital 'prisons outside of prisons'.
Belfast Telegraph
28-04-2025
- Belfast Telegraph
UVF-linked drug dealer who flooded Belfast streets with cocaine back behind bars
Pusher caught in car with false registration plates A drug dealer who flooded the streets of Belfast with cocaine alongside two UVF brothers has been remanded back into custody, accused of breaching his Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO). Standing handcuffed in the dock of Belfast Magistrates Court on Friday, 37-year-old William 'Buff' Hunter was charged with breaching his SCPO on April 24 this year by failing to notify police of the details of vehicle in which he was a passenger.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Yahoo
Key people smugglers slapped with order to stop future criminality
A trio of people smugglers have been hit with an extra order to stop any future criminality. Eglantin Doksani, Mai Van Nguyen and Richard Styles are now subject to Serious Crime Prevention Orders which are designed to frustrate criminality and protect the public. The courts grant the orders and limit their opportunities to continue their illegal activities and making them less attractive to organised crime gangs looking to recruit. READ MORE: 'Fire sale' of historic home in Sutton Park branded 'absolute disgrace' READ MORE: UK households putting out bins in March face £1,000 fine over little-known rule Read More: Police bust huge cannabis grow hidden inside industrial estate The order can also restrict the number of mobile phones or computers that offenders can access and limit the amount of cash they can carry. It can also require them to surrender passports and financial information. Eglantin Doksani was made the subject of an SCPO for his role in the movement of hundreds of migrants into the United Kingdom using small boats over the Channel. Doksani was sentenced to nine years and nine months in prison in July 2024 and was given a five-year Serious Crime Prevention Order, which will become live upon release from prison. Doksani acted as an agent for migrants and arranged spaces on boats and was in direct contact with people smugglers operating in Europe. His order includes restrictions around his communication devices, possession of money and bank accounts, notification of finances and assets, notification of travel outside the United Kingdom, and prohibition on the possession of official documentation—preventing him from having official identity documents that do not belong to him or family members or for anyone not residing in the same address. As part of the order he will also have to give the NCA notification of his residence. Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox People smuggler Mai Van Nguyen was also made the subject of a five-year SCPO for moving Vietnamese illegal migrants into the United Kingdom in the backs of lorries. He was jailed for five-and-a-half years in November 2023, and on 24 February 2025, a jury found him guilty of further charges relating to the exploitation of migrants being made to work in cannabis farms run by his gang. His order includes restrictions around communication devices, possession of cash, notification of finances and assets, and notification of premises both within and outside the UK. Richard Styles was also made subject of a five-year SCPO after being jailed for 12 years for his role in a plot to smuggle four Albanians into the United Kingdom by flying them to an airfield in Northamptonshire. Styles was a qualified pilot who flew to Belgium to meet an associate and then flew the four migrants into the United Kingdom. He was arrested upon landing the plane and convicted of facilitating a breach of immigration law. His order includes restrictions on communication devices, the prohibition of private aircraft, restrictions on travel and travel documents, the prohibition of importations, and notification requirements for entry to airports or airfields or the boundaries of an airport or airfield. Alison Abbott, Head of the NCA's Prison and Lifetime Management Unit, said: "Offenders involved in organised crime groups so often think they can return to their criminal ventures once they are released from prison. "But making them subject to Serious Crime Prevention Orders mean we will continue to monitor their activity and prevent them from engaging in further criminality. "These men were key players in organised immigration crime and their SCPOs mean they will be less attractive for recruitment to criminal groups, and even communicating with them will be risky. "Organised immigration crime remains a priority for the NCA and these orders show we will use all powers available to us to dismantle criminal gangs and prevent further harm to the people they exploit. "Orders are enforced by the NCA and action is taken against offenders who breach the terms of their orders."
