Drugs 'supermarket gang jailed for 31yrs

Dealers plead guilty after raid on block of flats fortress

- CONNOR GORDON, GRANT MCCABE

FIVE crime gang members snared in a major drugs bust at a block of flats known as "the shop" have been jailed for a total of over 31 years.

Lee Docherty, 37, Ian Millar, 39, Brendan Gillan, 32, his father Daniel Gillan, 60, and Christopher McKellar, 44, had been due to stand trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

But instead each pleaded guilty to being involved in serious organised crime.

The crew were arrested in 2020 following the raid in Greenock.

It came after French and Dutch authorities smashed EncroChat phone conversations in which the gang had organised drug trafficking.

Judge Lord Mulholland said: "You were involved in the running of a sophisticated crime group. You ran it as a drugs supermarket and kept a warehouse to house the drugs.