A DRUGS baron who continued to run his lucrative cocaine business while on the run in Thailand has had another 14 years added to his sentence.
Jonathan Moorby was involved in running a ‘commercial’ operation flooding the region with the Class A drug after having it transported across the Pennines from another organised crime group working out of Liverpool.
The 51-year-old was sentenced to 15 years in prison in in 2014 for supplying cocaine and amphetamine. He fled the country before the trial and was convicted and sentenced in his absence.
Teesside Crown Court heard how the conviction didn’t deter him form continuing to run his drug empire from South East Asia.
Jonathan Moorby when he was arrested in Thailand
By August 2015 he was back in the game using encrypted handsets to distribute the orders to his team based in and around Stockton.
Kama Melly QC,…
