How Leeds Fentanyl trio's dark web drug website worked according to the National Crime Agency

The three men were jailed for a total of 43 years

The National Crime Agency has outlined how three men ran a dark web site selling deadly Fentanyl around the world.

Three men who ran a dark web business selling the potentially lethal drugs fentanyl and its analogue carfentanyl to customers across the UK and worldwide, have been jailed for a total of 43 and a half years.

Jake Levene, 22, Lee Childs, 45, and Mandy Christopher Lowther, 21, were sentenced today at Leeds Crown Court after pleading guilty to exporting and supplying class A drugs.

The organised crime group (OCG) mixed fentanyl – which is up to 100 times stronger than morphine - and its analogue carfentanyl – which is 10,000 times stronger, with bulking agents at an industrial unit in Peel Street in Morley, Leeds.

-> Three men who ran dark web site from Leeds selling deadly fentanyl drug worldwide get 43 years jailThe drugs would then be sold over the dark web under the business name ‘UKBargins’.

They sold 2,853 items to 443 customers worldwide with 172 in the UK. Between December 2016 and April 2017 they turned over £163,474.

NCA investigators identified that six British people from the OCG’s customer list have died from issues related to fentanyl consumption, although it cannot be said with certainty the fentanyl they took was supplied by Levene, Childs and Lowther.

In total, 2.6kg of carfentanyl was recovered from the warehouse which equates to millions of lethal doses.