He ran drugs factory in quiet Essex village

A drug dealer who set up a Breaking Bad-style laboratory in a picturesque Essex village has been jailed for seven years. Locals were stunned when they found out Slawomir Soban, 34, had turned a rented storage unit into a drugs factory complete with a hydraulic press. Police recovered large amounts of methanol from the site, which is used to make synthetic party drugs like MDMA. The lab had the potential to yield hundreds of kilograms of drugs, Harrow Crown Court…