15yrs for 2nd heroin racket
Leicester tragedy pilot couldn’t control rotor
A DRUG dealer who set up a crime empire two hours after being freed early from jail for “good behaviour” has now been sentenced to another 15 years.
Mohammed Fazal, 32, ran a £3million cocaine and heroin operation after being freed in 2017, having served half his eight-year sentence for drug trading.
Once out, Fazal met old contacts, activated two mobile phones and set up a new drug racket. Fazal, of Rochdale, Gtr Manchester, admitted drug trafficking. Copter at the stadium before crash An AAIB explanatory graphic VICTIMS Leicester City owner Vichai and his assistant Nusara died with three others THE helicopter carrying Leicester City’s owner crashed because the pilot’s pedals had disconnected from the tail rotor, say investigators.
Billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others on board died because of the linkage system failing, a report reveals.
Inspection of the wreckage found that parts of a mechanism had separated and also that “black grease” had built up on one component.
The defects led to the tail rotor blades’ KILLED Pilots pitch being changed Izabela and Eric “till they reached the physical limit”, said the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
That sent the copter into an uncontrollable turn before it spun and crashed in the stadium car park, added the AAIB.
Vichai’s assistants Nusara Suknamai, 32, and Kaveporn Punpare, 33, also died along with pilot Eric Swaffer, 53, and his co-pilot girlfriend Izabela Lechowicz, 46.