‘Can’t come to court – we might get Covid’

A taxi driver and a car garage boss accused of supplying drugs arrested after police cracked the secret messaging app Encrochat were too ‘scared of the virus’ to come to court. Cabbie Craig Rouse, 39, and Robert Wiggins, 42, were arrested as part of Operation Venetic – one of the UK’s largest crackdowns on organised crime. The pair are charged with conspiring to supply class A drugs between March 23 and July 1. Wiggins, who runs an auto firm in…