This is the moment a Witney gangster handed over what police suspect was wads of cash to a courier in an Oxfordshire garden centre car park.

Richard Gray, 32, was filmed by police surveillance officers making the discreet hand over outside a Burford garden centre on Tuesday, March 16, 2021.

When the second man, Henry Soile, was stopped more than 100 miles away in Essex later that day he was found to have more than £200,000 in cash in his white BMW.

Footage of the clandestine meeting was shown to jurors at Oxford Crown Court in the trial of Richard Gray’s brother, Patrick, and an alleged customer, Mohamed Ali.

The short clip showed Henry Soile get into the Gray’s black 68-plate BMW, parked in Burford garden centre.

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Henry Soile gets into the black BMW (above) and (below) Richard Gray hands over a plastic bag Pictures: TVP/CPS (screenshots from video)

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Within 10 seconds, Soile was out of the passenger-side of the BMW holding a plastic bag. 

He was seen putting the bag into a Nike rucksack before getting into a 20-plate white BMW.

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Yesterday, jurors were told that Soile was arrested at around 6.10pm later that day at Boreham services, near Chelmsford. He was arrested in the white BMW, which was parked in the McDonald’s car park at the service station. 

Found inside the car was a black Nike holdall under a coat in the back of the car. It was later found to contain five bundles of cash totalling £87,950. 

An orange Sainsbury’s carrier bag was in the footwell directly behind the driver’s seat contained six wads of cash totalling £112,820. 

Patrick Gray and Mohamed Ali deny conspiracy to supply class A drugs. The trial continues. 

Richard Gray has already admitted his part in the conspiracy. 

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