Encrochat gun-runners jailed for 38 years

Two gun-runners who plotted to distribute sub-machine guns and drugs on Encrochat have been jailed for a total of 38 years. Waheed Zaman, 43 and Aweis Bashir, 27, used the secretive platform to arrange deals for Czech manufactured Skorpion machine pistols and class A narcotics. The pair chatted in an EncroChat room under false handles, with Zaman calling himself ‘Naturalmist’ and Bashir going by ‘Blackskull’ and then ‘LouisVuitton.com’. It was that change of name that played a part in their…