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For days, police watched Stephen Quinn's working day.

He would leave his home at 11.30am in his Fiat Doblo and then drive to various addresses in east Manchester.

Making an Aldi supermarket car park off Ashton New Road, Clayton, his base, he would make regular short excursions - toing and froing across the suburbs of Tameside and Manchester.

The reason for his journeys would soon become clear, and in 2024 they formed the beginning of a covert investigation.

That trail ended with the dismantling of a £1.6m drug empire which had remained off-radar for years.

The leader of the group was Lee Campbell, brother of murder victim Thomas Campbell.

After taking over his brother's operation, police discovered his secret. Never keep drugs at property linked to him or other memb

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