Drug dealer Byron Milne appealing prison sentence

Byron Milne

Byron Milne from Rochdale is appealing his prison sentence seven months after he was jailed. The 30-year-old admitted conspiracy to import and supply controlled substances and was sentenced to 14 years in prison in May.

Milne will now challenge his sentence at London’s Criminal Appeal Court after the judge granted permission for him to appeal the length of his sentence.

Milne was part of a gang of ten men, six of who were from Rochdale who were jailed in May this year after importing drugs from the Netherlands.

The gang imported drugs from Holland on food pallets shipped as freight between 2011 and 2012. One shipment worth £4.5M was found by police hidden in a shipment of tinned tomatoes.

Andrew O’Reilly from Heywood, who was jailed for eight years, and Wayne Braund from Rochdale, who was jailed for nine and half years, were refused bids to challenge their sentences.

Milne was described as the right hand man of gang leader Jason Seale, who also received 14 years in prison.

Most of the drug operation took place throughout Marland and Castleton in Rochdale with several of the men meeting through a local football team.

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