This was the moment a drugs kingpin gave two fingers as he was arrested at his home and put into the back of a police van.
It marked the beginning of the end for county lines mastermind Colin Jones, who was busted after cops bugged a car and heard him plotting to have a hitman "do a double one" on former gang member, Lee Murray.
His 18-strong cartel, who flooded North Wales and the UK with £2m worth of hard drugs, was brought crashing down as officers simultaneously raided the homes of the 49-year-old and his network, the Liverpool Echo reports.
A series of co-ordinated strikes hit properties across North Wales and Merseyside on the morning of September 5, 2019 following a 12 month probe targeting Jones and his gang.
In total drugs with a street value of £2.1 million were recovered - including 5kg of heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine and more than 54kg of Class A mixing agents.
The gang was brought down by North Wales Police's largest operation, an investigation boosted by recordings that helped detectives warn one man his life was in danger.
Unknown to Jones, police were listening in on his conversations, including one to hire a hitman to "do a double one" on a former gang member.
Jones and right hand man David Rawling were also recorded discussing the possible ways police, who warned the target his life was in danger, could have found out about their plot.
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While in the car with another associate, Rawling could be heard saying: "Someone's bugged mate, sum'in's bugged all round somewhere. Could be this f***ing car."
Eighteen gang members were sentenced over several days last week for a combined total of 146 years and nine months.
Jones was locked up for 21 years for conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm and for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
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He received 14 years for conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine to parts of North Wales, England and Scotland between January 1, 2017 and September 6, 2020.
He got a further seven years for conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm after hatching a plot involving a firearm to harm former gang member, Lee Murray.
Rawling, 38, of Lily Road, Litherland, who had claimed he was merely a "jumped up taxi driver" from Liverpool, was jailed for 11 years for conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm and for conspiring to supply heroin, cocaine and amphetamine to parts of North Wales, England and Scotland between January 1, 2017 and September 6, 2019.
