Overview

• Nathan Samuels, head of the Top Gear line, was sentenced to nine years in prison at Inner London Crown Court for large-scale cocaine supply.
• Five couriers, including black cab driver Michael Redgrave, received jail terms ranging from suspended sentences up to four years and three months.
• Operating from March 2022 to October 2023, the Top Gear line sold around 410 wraps of cocaine weekly, building a database of approximately 10,000 clients in the City.
• The gang used the Top Gear logo on encrypted WhatsApp chats to promote its service and assigned couriers codenames for pandemic-era deliveries.
• City of London Police analysed extensive phone records to map the hierarchy and dismantle one of the Square Mile’s largest cocaine operations.