A gangland enforcer and debt collector has been jailed for drugs offences after a National...

Published: 10:51 am December 19, 2023
Updated: 11:34 am October 8, 2025
Operation Venetic: Criminal enforcer and drugs accomplices jailed

A gangland enforcer and debt collector has been jailed for drugs offences after a National Crime Agency investigation.

Peter Cordwell, who has a history of violence, was jailed today for 11 years and six months after admitting being concerned in the supply of cocaine and amphetamine.

Cordwell, 49, and 6ft 4in tall, was known in the criminal world as an enforcer and debt collector for an organised crime group in Essex.

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