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Drug dealing gangster who has never worked in his life but lived in Sh112 million mansion

UK: A gangster plotted to flood the north west with heroin, cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines after struggling to keep up the payments on the mortgage of his Sh112 million home.

Back in 2004, shortly after being released from a seven-year sentence for drug dealing, Paul Doyle bought the £820,000 house in leafy Altrincham - even though neither he nor his wife had ever worked and had what a judge described as the ‘barefaced gall’ to claim £50,000 in state benefit.

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