Moped drug baron gets er, seven years

A drug baron called ‘Badger’ has been jailed for seven years for running a network of cocaine dealers while they posed as trainee black cab drivers learning ‘The Knowledge’ on mopeds. Patrick Maloney, 62, joined the sophisticated gang after he was released from prison for smuggling two tonnes of cannabis into the UK in September 2012. Maloney and his associates smuggled and sold millions of pounds worth of high-purity cocaine across the capital before they were brought down by an…