Lovestruck couples who plotted together to break the law
| Published date | 25 April 2021 |
The vile predators would film the horrific abuse of the child.
A prison officer who was blinded by love and covered up for her convict boyfriend is also among those who tried to take on the law and lost.
Chloe Jones and Philip King met while he was a serving prisoner at HMP Altcourse before he was sent to HMP Sudbury and escaped.
Jones then harboured her jailbird lover at her Kirkby home before the couple were caught after a high speed police chase.
Read the details of these stories and other criminal couples whose crimes shocked Merseyside below.
Anthony Reid and Zadia Salami
A couple who fronted a dark web operation to sell crystal meth were found with half a million pounds worth of the drug in their home.
Parents Anthony Reid, 38, and Zadia Salami, 30, were also harbouring wholesale amounts of other class A and B drugs, which banking IT expert Reid sent to customers all over the country.
The major dark web operation was discovered behind the door of a Toxteth home on Cairns Street after £120,000 worth of crystal meth, addressed to Reid in Warbreck Moor, was intercepted.
The drugs found at the raid included a kilo of ecstasy tablets, £7,500 worth of flowering cannabis heads, two and a half kilos of MDMA powder, cocaine and ketamine.
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Greedy Reid admitted earning up to £60,000 from his banking job, and investigations into his computer revealed incriminating data detailing thousands of pounds worth of drug orders.
Reid was jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty to conspiring to smuggle Class A drugs and two offences of conspiring to supply Class A and Class B drugs.
Salami was jailed for three and a half years for conspiring to supply Class A and Class B drugs.
Chloe Jones and Philip King
A prison officer harboured her convict boyfriend after he had escaped jail.
Chloe Jones was working at HMP Altcourse when she became lovestruck with criminal Philip King.
After he was transferred to HMP Sudbury the pair continued their forbidden romance, exchanging over 3,000 messages on an illicit mobile phone King had in his possession.
After he escaped from prison on September 1, 2017, King went to the 30-year-old's Kirkby home and even used her car -all while she was still working as a prison...
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