At Manchester Crown Court, Khassim Lawrence was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months behind bars years after he pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and conspiracy to supply cocaine.
Offenders are not known by their real names on EncroChat but by ‘handles’, with Khassim Lawrence being known as ‘Motleymetal’. Following an extensive investigation which involved hours of trawling through incriminating messages, officers were able to pinpoint his every move which detailed a violent and targeted attack on a man and showed Lawrence conspiring to buy large quantities of drugs which would then be distributed across Manchester.
