£500k a week baron James Harding gets 32 years for murder plot

An ‘untouchable’ drug baron who was making £500k a week running his empire from Dubai has been jailed for at least 32 years for plotting the murder of a gang rival. Using the handle ‘thetopsking’ James Harding, 34, sent selfies on the EncroChat encrypted service while using the same phone to arrange the hit. Harding and his second-in-command Jayes Kharouti, 39, were making £70,000 every day until law enforcement agencies cracked the app. They exchanged 9,136 messages showing how they…