Encrochat: Spy hack on gangster phones still decimating NI drug dealers’ ranks

In recent weeks, the 2020 French hack into the secret gangster phone network Encrochat has continued to see Northern Ireland drug dealers sent to Maghaberry.Multiple prison sentences have been handed down to some significant figures from Northern Ireland’s criminal world.Gangsters like ‘cute hur’, ‘mint wind’ and ‘ultra gold’ are just some of those who went down after the notorious platform spilled its secrets.Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Belfast Telegraph’s crime correspondent Allison Morris.