Moment Salford crime family rob notorious Liverpool gang in £1m cocaine raid
26.04.2022 - 20:43
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
This is the moment a Salford crime family carried out an audacious and brutal robbery on a Liverpool crime gang. After plotting for weeks, and fitting a tracking device to a car they were able to identify the drugs stash house of the Merseyside firm.
They struck just before 9.30am on May 23rd 2020 at the height of lockdown when the roads were empty. Hired hand, Ben Monks-Gorton posing as a delivery driver in a hi-vis jacket walked to the door of the house with an empty box.
As the door of the property in Liverpool opened, three men dressed in black and hooded stormed in. They were Jason Cox, the leader of the Salford gang, his brother, Craig, and Liverpool gangster, Richard Caswell.
In three minutes they battered a man and his son who was in the house with machetes and an axe. Leaving them seriously injured. Then snatched 30kg of cocaine, with a wholesale value of £1.2m from a storm drain in the back yard of the house.
Footage shows the gang running back to a white van, which was on false number plates, and never recovered. They throw two bags containing the drugs into the back of the vehicle then drive off.
Video taken inside the property by police reveals how several rooms and the hall way were left blood splattered. The older victim had his arm cut to the bone by a machete.
Cox brothers Jason, 35, and Craig, 33, joined forces with Liverpool criminal Richard Caswell, nicknamed 'Will' because of an apparent resemblance to pop star Will Young, to prepare the plot. Hired hand Ben Monks-Gorton, 30, posed as a delivery driver, carrying an empty box and knocking on the front door prior to a brutal attack.
The identity of members of the Liverpool outfit they targeted cannot be revealed due to legal reasons. The Cox siblings,