To the outside world he looked like a hard-working father who lived in a modest, end-of-terrace house.
"There was nothing flash about him at all, nothing screamed this person is a drug dealer," said the covert officer who led the surveillance of Robert Andrews Jr.
The 34-year-old wasn't even on the radar of police until officers found messages from him on the phone of another gang leader, in which they joked they would either end up "millionaires" or "sharing a cell" as they regularly sorted six-figure drug deals.
Detectives quickly realised that behind the everyman image, Andrews Jr was the mastermind of a multi-million pound drug empire selling cocaine and heroin on an industrial scale.
Secret police filming soon caught Andrews Jr doing brazen Class A drug deals in broad daylight and handing over more than £100,000 at a time in supermarket carrier bags.
