Operation Pibera - R-v- Alford & Ors
John Clifford & James Dick successfully prosecuted 13 Defendants in Operation Pibera which concerned a conspiracy to supply Class A drugs between London, Hampshire and Kent. The investigation involved complex mobile cell site analysis and undercover surveillance in 'test purchase' deployments. Sentences for the three principal Defendants who operated four different drugs lines and controlled a number of 'couriers' and 'runners' totalled 27 years imprisonment.