POLICE say the jailing of a Cheltenham drug gang shows that no criminals are untouchable.

POLICE say the jailing of a Cheltenham drug gang shows that no criminals are untouchable.: "GANG of men involved in a foiled plot to flood the streets of Cheltenham with £250,000 worth of cocaine have been jailed for almost 24 years between them.
At Gloucester Crown Court Judge William Hart heard that the plot was thwarted by a co-incidental police operation in the Whaddon area.
It led to cocaine courier Brian Nangle panicking and dropping the high-purity cocaine in the street as he fled, the court heard.
Nangle, 27, of Priors Road, Cheltenham; Michael Pockett, 35, of Avon Road; Scott Bedford, 34, of Clyde Crescent; Elliot Sheerin, 26, of Humber Road; and Paul Kiley, 41, of New Zelland Way, Rainham, Essex, all pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply cocaine on December 7 last year.
Jed Dicks, 20, of Mendip Road, Cheltenham, denied conspiracy but admitted a less serious charge of assisting an offender on the same date.
Judge Hart sentenced Pockett, Bedford and Kiley to six years and three months prison each. Nangle received five years.
Sheerin was given 12 months suspended for two years and ordered to do 180 hours of unpaid work, while Dicks was placed on a two year community order with 120 hours of unpaid work.
Detective Inspector Neil Carpenter, from the serious and organised crime unit, said the cocaine was one of the purest seizures they had seen."