John Clark enjoyed the finer things in life.

As a judge would later describe, his tastes included 'beautiful houses, rental properties, dressing in designer clothes and owning expensive cars'. So when it came to fleeing the law there was only one way he was going - in the heated driver's seat of his Bentley Continental.

Clark was able to afford the Champagne lifestyle because he sat atop a huge Bury -based drugs empire that, at its height, turned over £11m in just nine months. From a remote farmhouse in Waterfoot, Lancashire he oversaw a criminal network that stretched from Scotland to Merseyside, London to Lincolnshire.

In the space of just three years, Clark, a father of two, bought a fleet of luxury cars including a £65,000 Range Rover Sport, an Audi RS3 worth £44,000, a £120,00

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