A FAMILY-run drugs gang who made thousands of pounds pedalling heroin and cocaine in York have been jailed for more than 102 years in total.

All but two of the 13-member gang, comprised of members of the same family and their trusted network of co-conspirators, were jailed at Leeds Crown Court on December 21.

The remaining two have been given suspended jail terms.

On October 26, head of the operation, Alfred Phillip Dear Senior, 45, of Corbridge Close, Hull, was found guilty in his absence of conspiracy to supply class A drugs between October 2015 and June 2016.

He was jailed for 21 years which also included three years for a raid on a cash machine. He failed to turn up at court for sentencing and is now wanted.

His two sons, Alfred Dear Junior, 26, and Levi Dear, 24, both of James Street Caravan Site, York, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class a drugs at an earlier hearing and were jailed for 12 years each.

Nine other members of the group also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs and include:

Stine Wilson, 33, of Carnock Close, Huntington, York, was jailed for nine years and nine months.

Simon McArthur, 28, of Roche Avenue, York, was jailed for 11 years and six months which included other offences of burglary, theft and motoring offences. Marcus Levi Stannard, 26, of no fixed address, was jailed for eight years.

Geoffrey Smith, 25, of Burtonstone Lane,York, was jailed for five years. David Christopher Smith, 24, of Woolnough Avenue, York, was jailed for nine years and nine months.

Phillip Walker, 29, of Albert Close, Huntington, York, was jailed for three years.

Paul Anthony Garratt, 49, of Jackson Street, York, was jailed for three years.

Such was the extent of the conspiracy that four people at the lower end of the chain have been arrested, convicted and jailed independently throughout the course of the investigation, with evidence from those prosecutions featuring in the this trial of the key members of the group.

The investigation spanned three years from October 2015 to October 2018 and involved approximately 550 exhibits and 500 witness statements. The total amount of cash seized was £115,000.