FIVE men from Tyldesley have been jailed for more than 25 years for their part in a £200,000 cocaine dealing ring.

The group were jailed yesterday, Friday, following Greater Manchester Police raids across the north west in March this year.

A total of 15 properties in Salford, Trafford, Manchester, Wigan and Lancashire were searched, with £200,000 worth of cocaine and £30,000 cash seized.

Five Tyldesley men received jail terms at Manchester Crown Square for conspiring to supply cocaine, in addition to a woman from the area who received a suspended sentence.

Mark Smith, 26, of Lune Street, was jailed for nine years while 27-year-old Jake Barrett, of Wardley Road and 24-year-old Callum Green, of Lever Street were jailed for six years each.

Linton road resident Daniel Smith, a 23-year-old who is also known as Daniel Hefferon, was jailed for two years while Jamie Grundy, 24, of Prospect Street, will spend the next three years behind bars.

Wardley Road resident Stacey Bradley, 38, was given a 12-month jail sentence suspended for two years.

They were part of a group of 10 people who were sentenced for conspiring to supply class A drugs at Manchester Crown Square.

Timperley resident Brendan Roberts, 42, was jailed for eight years, 36-year-old Paul Cox from Pendlebury was given seven-and-a-half years in prison and 38-year-old Wayne Jones, of Salford, was imprisoned for five years.

Ernest Barrow, 52, of HMP Forest Bank, was also jailed for two years.

Greater Manchester Police will now look to recover the gang’s ill-gotten gains through a proceeds of Crime Act hearing.

Superintendent Mark Kenny said: “The sentences handed down today are proof of the continuous work Greater Manchester Police does to dismantle organised crime groups.

“I would like to thank all the officers involved in this operation who have put endless hours into this investigation over a long-running period.

“Drugs blight our communities and we will never tolerate it and we will always aim to take those involved in crime off the streets and put them in jail, where they belong.

“To do this we need the public’s help and we need people to come forward with information.

“There is no overnight solution but today shows we listened to residents’ concerns and we will do everything we can to bring those responsible to justice.

“I have no doubt the communities these individuals have impacted on with their criminal activities in these sentences – this sentence should serve as a harsh warning to those considering a life of crime.”