Busted gangs in secret text panic
CRIME kingpins targeted in a crackdown which resulted in 750 arrests swapped texts as cops closed in, exclaiming: “They’re not f***ing about.”
In messages released last night by the National Crime Agency, one suspect wrote: “If ye got NCA on ye m8/ ye got problems for sure and heavy bird m8.”
Another said: “Bro NCA come after you there is no work these b ****** s had intel on everything.”
The NCA helped crack Dutch-owned EncroChat, a secret messaging service crooks used. NCA chief
Matt Horne said: “The messages are a reflection of UK law enforcement’s standing in their eyes.”
In UK-wide swoops, police seized £54million in cash, £80million in drugs, 77 guns and 1,800 rounds of ammo. More than 200 murder plots are thought to have been thwarted.
Charlotte says: “I had absolutely no idea I was pregnant. The only signs were stomach cramps two days before she was born.
“I thought I’d eaten something bad, or it was period pains, but I called a doctor on the morning before she was born, to be sure.
“He visited and said I had trapped gas and IBS. Then an hour later, I went to the toilet and an umbilical cord fell out of me. I could not believe what was happening.
“I got a sudden urge to push, then two little feet popped out. I was astonished, but I knew from watching One Born Every Minute that an umbilical cord coming out first is not good, because the baby is being starved of oxygen.
“And a breach delivery is harder. So I knew that I had to push with everything I had.
“I was strangely calm. I just knew I had to get our baby out.”
Evelyn Rose was born in a corridor at Dominic’s flat in Amsterdam, where he and fellow Londoner Charlotte live.
Dominic, 41, picks up the story: “We’d called an ambulance, but I saw the little legs and, at this point, it’s just me and Charlotte.
“I rang the emergency services back and said, ‘You’ve got to get here now, guys!’ Charlotte is standing there, holding on to the legs. She pushed once, and it was half way up the baby’s calves, she pushed again and it was up to the hips.
“With the final push, the baby dropped out. Just three pushes. Charlotte grabbed her and passed her to me. She was really floppy and blue. Then we started chest compres
sions and tried to get air into her. “In the meantime, the ambulance crew turned up and started working on her.”
Charlotte continues: “I shouted, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s a little girl.’ I’ve always wanted a little girl – a minime. I looked at her and she was so beautiful, with dark curly hair. I shouted, ‘Is she alive?’ I really thought at that moment she was dead. Dominic had given her CPR
that he remembered being taught in primary school. She was whisked away in an ambulance and we were taken in another.
“I didn’t know if she was alive or dead. Then the emotional rollercoaster started. As a woman who has just had a baby, your emotions are all over the place – I desperately wanted her to survive.”
The couple – reeling from the shock of having a baby at all – faced an anxious wait to find out if Evelyn was brain damaged.
Charlotte adds: “Five days later, the neurosurgeon came back and said to the doctor, ‘Have you sent me the correct scan, because this baby’s brain is absolutely fine.’ She has no brain damage at all – a real miracle given the way she was born. We were so relieved, I burst into tears. We are so, so lucky to have her. She’s a dream come true.
“Being able to hold her for the first time four days after her birth was the best feeling in the world. It felt amazing and so special.”
Two-week-old Evelyn is recovering well and has been moved out of ICU and on to the children’s ward. To say Charlotte was stunned to become a mum is an understatement. She had no baby bump and had been having
I got urge to push, then two little feet popped out... I was astonished CHARLOTTE ON BABY’S DRAMATIC APPEARANCE