An Encrochat gangster who planned a violent vendetta against a pair of Salford brothers who robbed his Liverpool stash house has been jailed. Edward Jarvis, 59, was a 'key figure' in a Merseyside organised crime group (OCG) led by Vincent Coggins, which flooded the north west with class A drugs. The group communicated encrypted messaging platform EncroChat.
But behind the scenes, each message was being read by police after the platform was successfully hacked by French authorities in 2020. Jarvis was tracked down by police after one of Coggins' stash houses was raided by Salford brothers Jason and Craig Cox, triggering arson attacks at properties linked to the Cox family in Salford. Though Jarvis answered no comment during police interviews, officers had enough intel to tie him to the ongoing Encrochat investigation, reports the Liverpool Echo .
READ MORE: S econd Greater Manchester school put in lockdown The 59-year-old helped orchestrate the gang’s supply of large consignments of cocaine and heroin to mid-level dealers across Merseyside and the rest of the country. During his trial at Manchester Crown Court , the jury heard the gang were involved in the supply of 150kg of cocaine and 215kg of heroin during a brief conspiracy in the early months of 2020. Along with his boss Coggins and co-conspirators Paul Woodford and Michael Earle, Jarvis also plotted a violent vendetta against a number of individuals who they suspected had robbed one of the gang’s stash houses and mad.