the man in the dock is edward robertjarvis, a major player in a fearsome liverpool crime group called the huyton firm. he's pleading not guilty to drug trafficking and blackmail. jarvis has a long criminal history. he's already served time for trafficking drugs from venezuela in 2000. they had bought a yacht for £30,000 and equipped it to sail across the atlantic to pick up a large quantity, i think around 300 kilos, of cocaine. the smugglers were caught, and jarvis was sentenced by a british court to 28 years. but not all the gang were jailed. according to the officers who were working on it, a couple of the people with him would have been associated or key figures in what subsequently became known as the huyton firm. the huyton firm is named after the part of merseyside where it's based. it supplied massive quantities of heroin and cocaine across the uk. the crime group has been running huyton for 30 years. at the top are two brothers that have remained under the radar all that time. they have a ferocious reputation for violence, and nobody in this area wants to talk to me about the

the man in the dock is edward robertjarvis, a major player in a fearsome liverpool crime group calledhe huyton firm. he's pleading not guilty to drug trafficking and blackmail. jarvis has a long criminal history. he's already served time for trafficking drugs from venezuela in 2000. they had bought a yacht for £30,000 and equipped it to sail across the atlantic to pick up a large quantity, i think around 300 kilos, of cocaine. the smugglers were caught, and jarvis was sentenced by a british court to 28 years. but not all the gang were jailed. according to the officers who were working on it, a couple of the people with him would have been associated or key figures in what subsequently became known as the huyton firm. the huyton firm is named after the part of merseyside where it's based. it supplied massive quantities of heroin and cocaine across the uk. the crime group has been running huyton for 30 years. at the top are two brothers that have remained under the radar all that time. they have a ferocious reputation for violence, and nobody in this area wants to talk to me about them