A major drugs ring in Bristol has been smashed, with ten men sentenced to more than 90 years behind bars.

The modus operandi of the gang responsible for the widespread supply of high grade cocaine into Bristol.can now be revealed after reporting restrictions on the trial at Bristol Crown Court were lifted yesterday.

Clifton and Redland do not immediately spring to mind as the homes of the ringleaders of a group of hardened criminals, but Rabi Edukali from Clifton received a 20-year sentence and Curtis Brooks from Redland was sentenced to 14 years.

The police operation was centred on Bristol in 2011 and concluded with arrests in January last year.

On May 27, 2011 a Renault Clio was stopped on the M32 coming into Bristol from London and firearms officers found half a kilo of cocaine in his car. This was found to be 98 per cent pure, some of the highest purity ever seized.

In July 2011 a Range Rover driving towards London from Bristol was stopped on the M4, with £50,000 wrapped in a plastic bag found in the front passenger foot well.

A further consignment of cocaine with a value of more than £620,000 was seized in November 2011 in a camper van when police stopped it in Fishponds.

In December 2011 officers seized another half kilo of cocaine at a property on St Michael’s Hill when Edukali (number 6, below) was arrested in possession of cocaine nearby

And in January 2012 firearms officers raided a house in Southmead, where Brooks (number 1, below) was arrested in possession of a large amount of cash. Mobile phones and cocaine were also recovered from the flat.

After the men were sentenced, acting detective inspector Jonathan Bancroft said: “The destruction of this organised crime group is just the start.

“We will now strip these individuals of every penny we have linked to their profiting from peddling misery and preying on the vulnerable in Bristol.

“That money will then go to hopefully try and make good, some of the harm they have caused.

“This was a team result but without the eyes and ears of people in Bristol, we would never have succeeded.”