Jamie Broderick was arrested last year after officers found over 40kg of amphetamine with potential street value of nearly £2m at flat in Doncaster
A grandad has been jailed for more than three years for his part in a sophisticated multi-million pound amphetamine supply ring.
Jamie Broderick, from Middlesbrough, was arrested last year after officers found more than 40kg of amphetamine with a potential street value of nearly £2m at a flat in Doncaster and in a nearby car.
Paul Mitchell, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court a further quantity of base liquid sufficient to manufacture another 50kg of amphetamine was also found.
Broderick, 46, of Gypsy Lane, Marton, admitted conspiracy to supply the Class B drug.
Amphetamine sulphate paste was produced from a base liquid by means of a chemical reaction. The paste was then mixed with a cutting agent such as caffeine before being packaged for sale.
The fumes were so strong from the chemicals being used to process the drugs at the flat in Bessacarr Court, Doncaster, that officers from the National Crime Agency had to wear face masks to breathe during their search.
He said during April last year a watch was being kept on the flat and two of those involved in the ring, Daniel Dobbs and Paul Cook, were seen there.
On April 22, Broderick drove on to a Tesco car park in Hornsea with Stephen Vaughan as a passenger. They both then walked to Cook’s home 200 yards away.
Later all four were seen moving boxes to and from the Doncaster premises.
On April 29, Dobbs and Cook were seen shopping for equipment used to turn the flat into a drug processing workshop, including bowls, measuring jugs, plastic containers, scales and wooden spoons at one supermarket and face masks at another store.
The next day Vaughan was seen purchasing a vacuum packing machine in Middlesbrough.
It had been ordered by someone called Dobbs and was paid for in cash.
On May 1, Broderick exchanged Blackberry messages with Cook about other equipment that was needed one saying they needed “fresh m” which the prosecution alleged was methanol which Cook had previously bought from a business in Lincolnshire.
Broderick was arrested at his home in Middlesbrough on May 2 after others had been arrested.
Among items recovered was a pair of Armani jeans and a white T-shirt, both of which bore traces of amphetamine and caffeine.
Peter Makepeace, representing Broderick, told the court on Monday he had been married for 25 years and had found it extremely difficult to be “ripped” away from his family and into prison for the first time in his life.
He had found that a frightening and life changing experience but was now a trusted prisoner with a cleaning job on his wing.
He was someone very unlikely to trouble the courts again after he received a 44-month jail term.
Vaughan, 38, from Hornsea, also admitted conspiracy to supply amphetamine and was jailed for 32 months.
Sentencing them Recorder Darren Preston said, although less involved than others, there had to be an immediate jail term. “This was a very sophisticated operation involving the production of very large quantities of amphetamine.”
Dobbs, 25, of Scarborough Road, York, was sentenced in January to 13 years and six months for conspiracy to supply amphetamine and also conspiracy to supply heroin.
Cook, 46, of Burton Road, Hornsea, who pleaded guilty to both conspiracies was jailed for eight years eight months.
Two other men were each jailed for five years at the same time.
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