West Bridgford detached home part of more than £1.2m of assets recovered from Nottingham drugs gangs

Over several months the two groups distributed and sold Class A drugs across the county

More than £1.2m worth of cash and assets - including a five-bedroom detached home in West Bridgford has been recovered from two Nottinghamshire gangs and suppliers who flooded the county's streets with heroin and cocaine. The 'Kinsella' and ' Eastwood ' crime groups and the dealers they used made the money by selling vast amounts of Class A drugs.

This included more than ten kilos of cocaine and heroin making their way into Nottinghamshire from other parts of the country. The criminal network was dismantled by the Police in April 2020 after the groups' seven-month drug dealing operations.

Between November 2019 and April 2020, the Nottingham-based Kinsella group bought cocaine in bulk from high-level suppliers based in the north and south of England. They then sold this to local drug dealers, which included the Eastwood group.

This gang then sold the cocaine to drug users across the Eastwood and the Broxtowe area, while also selling large quantities of heroin they had sourced from different corners of the country.

The two groups used an encrypted communications platform to coordinate their drug activity and communicate with other suppliers. Following a series of police operations multiple members of the conspiracy were found one by one.

In total, eighteen people were implicated in the drugs supply conspiracy, with gang members and suppliers receiving a combines prison sentence of 166 years after the sentencing in March 2023. Those involved include the Kinsella group bosses Michael Kinsella and Jeffery Bradwell, and brothers Daniel, Lee and Dominic Wright, as well as Adam Rhodes, who all led the Eastwood gang.

The full list of those involved includes:

Michael Kinsella, 36, of Mundella Road, The Meadows, was jailed for 12 years and eight months
Jeffery Bradwell, 35, of Wilfrid Grove, West Bridgford, was sentenced to 11 years and four months
Daniel Wright, 36, of Princes Street, Eastwood, received 11 years and four months
Lee Wright, 39, of Moon Crescent, Eastwood, was sentenced to 11 years and four months
Adam Rhodes, 34, of Cultivation Road, Eastwood, was jailed for 10 years
David Bowen, 51, of Merton, London, was sentenced to 10 years and eight months
Fred Carvalho, 41, of London, was jailed for five years and eight months
Michael Sirrell, 37, of Chilton Drive, Watnall, received a 15 year prison sentence
Atif Shariff, 35, of Clapham, London, was sentenced to eight years and three months
Ashley Hook, 40, of Braintree, Essex, was jailed for 13 years
Nigel Sisson, 35, of Meadow Court, Kilburn, Belper, Derbyshire, received a seven year sentence
Dominic Wright, 34, of Scargill Walk, Eastwood, was jailed for 12 years
Lewis Kelly, 30, of Willow Road, West Bridgford, was sentenced to eight years and eight months
Jamie Moore, 32, of Holloway Close, East Bridgford, received a seven year sentence
Keilan Harrison, 22, of Hilltop Rise, Newthorpe, was sentenced to five years and eight months
Wayne Shipman, 40, of Lovatt Drive, Langley Mill, was jailed for six years
Dale Wright, 42, Lynncroft, Eastwood, was sentenced to seven years and two months
John Wells, 47, of Normandale Road, Liverpool, received a sentence of three years and four months

Since the sentencings last year, the criminal proceedings have continued to unsure that the funds generated from the drug dealing were taken from them under the Proceeds of Crime Act. These proceedings concluded on Tuesday, October 1 at Nottingham Crown Court.

A total of £1,262,789.49 worth of cash and assets were recovered by Nottinghamshire Police. This includes over £700,000 in cash and other high-value assets being seized, including a five-bedroomed detached property in West Bridgford, which has since been sold.

Money and assets confiscated from criminals are usually split between the Home Office, Crown Prosecution Service, the courts and the police under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Whilst this large figure has been recovered, it was identified during the confiscation proceedings that those involved in the conspiracy had collectively benefited to a sum of almost £9 million.

The court ruled that if any assets belonging to these individuals are found at a later date, an application can be made to recover them too. This followed an investigation by the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU), which aimed to bring to justice to everyone in the drug supply chain.

Detective Inspector Tom Bentley, of EMSOU, said: “After securing a combined 166-year-prison sentence for those involved in this conspiracy last year, we’re delighted to have now followed that up through these confiscation proceedings. Throughout this investigation, we were determined to ensure that none of the 18 criminals who were jailed for their role in this were able to benefit by a single penny from their ill-gotten gains."

He continued: "A lot of hard work and perseverance has gone into making this possible, with our policing teams’ efforts culminating in more than £1.2 million in cash and assets being recovered, which is a fantastic result. We know the leading players in this conspiracy collectively benefited to a financial sum even higher than that though, so should any of them be found to have assets in the future, these could be taken off them too.

“The ability to do that, under the Proceeds of Crime Act, will also act as a great disruption tool to prevent further offending, so we’re really pleased with this result.”