Gun dealers supplied machine guns and assault rifles

Two brothers plotted to flood the UK with hundreds of kilos of cocaine every week along with AK47 assault rifles during the Covid-19 lockdown, a court heard. Craig and Ashley Gallagher set up a fake computer company as a front for their drugs operation while using Encrochat to import semi-automatic weapons. Craig, 36, – who used the handles Acidchest and Onion.com on the secretive app – was jailed for 24 years at Liverpool Crown Court. Ashley, who used the handle…