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Nicholas Waine, 27, was part of a criminal trio busted by police operating in Sale, Trafford.

When police raided one of their homes, Waine and his partners Jack Yarwood, 28, and Wayne Keron, 49, were found sitting around a large tub filled with cocaine.

Detective Sergeant Patrick Goodrich, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "We quite literally caught the three men red-handed, and their fingerprints were all over the drugs and cutting paraphernalia."

A mobile phone was seized, and on it police found multiple pictures Waine had taken of himself.

In some of them he is grinning, surrounded by cannabis plants and handfuls of product.

All three men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester.

Waine and Yarwood were sentenced to four years and eight months behind bars; Keron was sentenced to two years.

DS Goodrich added: "Now that these men are off the streets, we have not only made a huge dent into the supply of drugs in this area but also sent a powerful message that no one is above the law."