Laurence Hayden, 54, had skipped bail and fled to Spain to evade justice after a bungled scheme to sway jurors.
Laurence Hayden who is one of five people facing jail for plot to fix a drugs kingpin’s trial
But he was convicted in his absence of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, extradited back to the UK and jailed for three years and eight months. His “second-in-command” Hayden, from Coventry, set about securing his acquittal by lying in the witness box about a text message to Allen referring to “white cakes”.
Hayden also acted as a conduit between Allen and Drackley’s mother Lorraine Frisby and arranged for another witness, Daniel Porter, to give false evidence. After a separate trial at the Old Bailey, Hayden was found guilty of the plot to pervert the course of justice with Allen, 66, from Coventry, Drackley, 37, from Nuneaton, and Mark Walker, 57.Previously, Allen was jailed for five years, Drackley for four years, Frisby for two years and three months, and Walker for nine months.
The judge said that while the plan was “inept in many ways” and some of the plotters were “grossly incompetent”, Hayden was not “save for your idiotic decision to jeopardise the conspiracy by nodding or winking at the jury”.
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