TWO men have been found guilty of being ‘downstream customers’ of a cocaine kingpin who was jailed for 21 years after a large-scale drug operation was unveiled by police.

Mark Hickford, 51, and Liam Field, 26, were found guilty today (Friday, February 2) of a conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.

The pair were ‘downstream customers’ of brothers Richard and Patrick Gray who were jailed in the summer of 2022 after being found guilty of supplying large quantities of cocaine Oxfordshire.

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They were caught after police swooped in on the gang in May, raiding properties in Oxford, Witney, Banbury, and Milton Keynes, seizing 2.5kg of high-purity cocaine and around £110,000 in cash.

Ringleader Richard Gray, then 33, was jailed for 21 years while his older brother, then 44, received 18 years.

Hickman, of Hartford Road, in Edmonton, was found guilty of two counts and Field, of Swindon, was found guilty of one count.

They will now be sentenced next week on Friday, February 9.

Richard Gray’s former partner, Melissa Grant, was also on trial charged with possession of criminal property, namely £44,315 in cash.

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The court she did not take an ‘active part’ in the operation but she was aware of it.

However, the 33-year-old, of Barley Court, Witney, pleaded guilty a week after the trial started on January 23.

She will be sentenced three weeks after Hickman and Field.