How were the gang caught? Kurt Bradshaw, the gang’s kingpin, was spotted behaving suspiciously when police pulled up behind his Volkswagen Scirocco in Blackpool on May 1, 2020. Officers found a large amount of cannabis in bin liners and an iPhone when they searched the vehicle. When police attended Bradshaw’s home in Thornton-Cleveleys to conduct a search, his co-defendants Jack Pope, Craig Hollis and Kynan Dawes were all present.
“Not only did they use encrypted phones to try and avoid detection, they also went to the extreme lengths of setting up a fake health care company in a bid to stop their dealers being arrested and searched for being out without a valid excuse during the Covid pandemic.” As well as forensic evidence Dawes, who used the aliases Kilo Delta and Superman, was linked to the conspiracy by telephony evidence. He also bought and collected drugs for the OCG.