Gangster, 80, turned pensioner cottage into £288m drug empire after lottery win

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(EFE).- An 80-year-old Britishman who won £2.4 million (€2.77 million) in the lottery received a 16-year prison sentence for leading a drug-trafficking gang that "inundated" the Manchester region, north-west of England, with barbiturates valued at up to £288 million (€332 million). According to the media this Thursday, John Eric Spiby, his son and two other individuals were part of an organized crime organization that manufactured ethizolam tabl…