Three men and one woman have been jailed for operating a cocaine and heroin drugs ring in Dorset.
- Left-right: DANIEL TINSON, JASON O’BRIEN, JENNIFER CORRALES-RUIZ, MARTIN MACGILLIVARY
They were all sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on 21 December following a lengthy investigation led by detectives from Dorset Police’s Major Crime Investigation Team.
Jason O’Brien, 23, of Liverpool was handed a total of 12 years in prison after pleading guilty at the same court to causing grievous bodily harm with intent and two counts of conspiracy to supply class A drugs. He received seven years for the drug offences and five years for the GBH offence to run consecutively.
Martin MacGillivary, 32 of Christchurch, was jailed for five-and-a-half years after admitting two counts of conspiracy to supply class A drugs and two of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
His girlfriend Jennifer Corrales-Ruiz, 25 and of Christchurch, received a 16-month prison sentence after previously pleading guilty to two charges of knowingly being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
Daniel Tinson, 22 and of Christchurch, was jailed for 20 months on 5 November 2015 after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine.
The court heard that O’Brien, who is from Liverpool and has a strong family network there, spent a large amount of his time in Bournemouth.
A mobile telephone belonging to O’Brien was central to his drug supply network in Dorset. It operated by taking direct orders for drugs from habitual users in the Bournemouth and Boscombe areas.
Investigators found that incoming calls were followed by calls from drug runners who met the user to sell them the illegal substances.
Regular text messages were also sent from the phone advertising their drugs to their customer base of more than 100 users.
The court heard that during the investigation a large number of mobile phones were seized and on 14 of them, O’Brien’s number was saved under names such as Jason Scouse, Lil Jay and Jason.
Officers tracked the movements of O’Brien’s drug phone and discovered that vehicles owned and driven by MacGillivary and mobile phones belonging to him and girlfriend Corrales-Ruiz made parallel journeys on 16 occasions between 8 December 2014 and 26 April 2015.
On 18 May 2015, Corrales-Ruiz was arrested at the caravan she shared with MacGillivary off Matchams Lane in Hurn. Officers discovered 19 tennis ball sized wraps containing individually wrapped deals of heroin and crack cocaine with a street value of £20,000.
While there, Daniel Tinson arrived and was detained for a drug search. He was found in possession of 140 individual deals of crack cocaine.
The court was told that the grievous bodily harm offence took place on the morning of Thursday 13 November 2014, when O’Brien and two accomplices visited a man at an address in Poole who they believed owed them a drugs debt.
The man was woken by the sounds of stones being thrown at the windows and shouting. When he looked out of the window he saw two men in the front garden and one in the back.
Fearing for his safety, the victim jumped out of the first floor bedroom window and hid in a neighbour’s garage. As the victim made his way to nearby public toilets he was followed by the three men and punched before managing to break free.
As he crossed Sea View Road, the victim was mown down by O’Brien in a silver car. The two men then kicked and punched the man before repeatedly stamping on his head. O’Brien picked up his accomplices and drove away.
The victim sustained a fractured leg and scratches on his chest, back, side, elbows and head.
It transpired that the victim was targeted through a case of mistaken identity, the court heard.
Detective Sergeant Mark Fossey, of Dorset Police’s Major Crime Investigation Team, said: “Jason O’Brien was at the heart of a dangerous drugs network operating between Liverpool and Dorset, which enforced its debts with violence.
“Martin MacGillivary, Jennifer Corrales-Ruiz and Daniel Tinson were all involved in the distribution of class A drugs for financial gain, as were a number of other individuals who have already been sentenced for related offences.
“This has been a long and complicated investigation and I would like to pay tribute to the investigation team, in particular Detective Constable Vanessa Moyle, who worked tirelessly over 14 months to secure the evidence for this successful prosecution.
“I hope the sentences handed out today serve as a message to others that these offences will not be tolerated.”
A number of other defendants linked to O’Brien’s drug network have also been convicted following investigations by Dorset Police.
On 13 February 2015 at Bournemouth Crown Court Shaun Brade, 18 and of no fixed abode, was jailed for a total of five years and four months for conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
On 13 February 2015 at Bournemouth Crown Court Craig Brock, 24 and of Poole, was jailed for five years and four months for conspiracy to supply class A drugs and two years for possession with intent to supply class B drugs to run concurrently.
On 13 February 2015 at Bournemouth Crown Court George McGaughey, 42 and of no fixed abode, was jailed for five years and four months for conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
On 9 April 2015 a 17-year-old was handed a referral order for eight months.
On 31 March 2015 at Bournemouth Crown Court Lee Stuart-Duncan, 40 and of Bournemouth, was jailed for 28 months for supplying class A drugs.
Hannah Louise Doyle, 33 and of Bournemouth, was handed a community order at Bournemouth Crown Court on 17 March 2015 with a rehabilitation requirement for six months and supervision requirement for 12 months for possession of heroin.
Lawrence O’Brien, 23 and of Bournemouth, was jailed for three years at Exeter Crown Court on 26 June 2015 for supplying class A drugs.
Gareth William Atkins, 35 and of Poole, was handed a six month prison sentence suspended for 12 months for encouraging an offence to be committed.
Kirk Persence, 35 and of Bournemouth, was jailed for five years on 4 June 2015 at Bournemouth Crown Court for possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
