Paedophile Colin Blanchard was 'a perfect conman'

Paedophile Colin Blanchard was 'a perfect conman': "When Colin Blanchard received a text telling him the police were waiting for him at Manchester Airport he tried to thrust his laptop, memory stick and mobile phone on a complete stranger. Images of the most serious levels of child sex abuse were stored on his hardware. He knew it was enough for him to be imprisoned for a long time. The 40-year-old paedophile from Rochdale, the 'lynchpin' of a web of child sex abuse, has been given an indeterminate jail sentence, and told he will serve at least nine years, for a string of sexual assaults on a child and distributing indecent images of childre...

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Glasgow drug trafficker loses cannabis profits

 Glasgow drug trafficker loses cannabis profits: "man caught with £381,000 worth of cannabis in Glasgow has been ordered to hand over £30,000 in crime profits. John McQuillan was jailed for seven years and two months after he was found with the haul near the city's Easterhouse area in July 2009. The Crown also raised an action against the 46-year-old to claw back any proceeds of crime. At the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Pentland agreed a confiscation order and gave McQuillan six months to pay. During a previous appearance at the High Court in Glasgow, he admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis. The court heard how intelligence had led to officers from the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement placing McQuillan under su...

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