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Members of a criminal gang, who had planned to flee the country as police closed in on them, were stopped in their tracks during their attempted escape. Joshua Hayes, self-proclaimed "the Boss Man", and his accomplices were undone by a covert listening device that had been planted in his Mercedes.

As well as running a profitable drug trafficking operation, the organised crime group also stashed Skorpion submachine guns within a cavity in the walls of a flat. They even arranged for a plasterer to perform work on the flat to ensure the lethal weapons remained hidden from the police.

Liverpool Crown Court was told that Merseyside Police initially searched two flats on Condron Road North in Litherland on July 13 last year, suspecting that firearms were being stored there. Al

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