PA MediaTwo men who accompanied a drug baron to enforce a debt collection, have been jailed.
Sheffield Crown Court heard how Liverpool career criminal John Haase travelled to Sheffield to collect £280,000 while in the company of Connor Lewis-Jones, 26, and John Hayes, 49.
While Lewis-Jones’ and Hayes’ involvement was “relatively minor”, Haase, when unable to enforce the payment and set a Range Rover on fire.
Lewis-Jones and Hayes, both from Liverpool, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender and were both sentenced to 12 months imprisonment.
The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, was told Lewis-Jones accompanied Haase from Liverpool to Sheffield on one occasion while Hayes…
