Gosport heroin and crack cocaine gang facing jail after Hampshire police seize £275,000 worth of drugs

Seven men from Portsmouth, Gosport and London are now facing jail after the final defendant among them was convicted at a Portsmouth Crown Court trial today.

It comes as Hampshire police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit investigated the Gosport-centred gang between September 2018 and May 1, 2019.

During this time officers seized the class A drugs and around £74,500 in cash.

Rayhaan Hoque, 38, of Woolmore Street in Tower Hamlets, London, was today of two charges of conspiring to supply class A drugs. He denied the allegations.

Four other men pleaded guilty in February and March this year to the same two charges.

They included Gosport men Luke Goldsmith, 28, of Rambler Drive; John Parham, 33, of The Crossways; Lance Burt, 22, of Bury Hall Lane.

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Jack Darvill, 22, of Londesborough Road, Southsea, also admitted the two charges.

Liam Whitnell, 37, formerly of HMP Dovegate, and Jacob James, 26, of Briar Close, in Gosport, admitted a single charge of conspiring to supply class A.

All seven will be sentenced on Thursday.

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