£500k a week dealer James Harding faces life sentence for murder plot

An ‘untouchable’ drug dealer who was making £500k a week while enjoying a life of fabulous luxury in Dubai is facing a life sentence for plotting the murder of a 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. Their messages were said to show how…