"Spiby won the money in 2010, the court was told, and was involved in flooding the region with millions of tablets disguised as diazepam. Diazepam, also known as Valium, calms the nervous system to treat anxiety, muscle spasms, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal. The court heard that he also provided the premises and helped adapt the premises and purchase machinery worth thousands of pounds to make the drugs."
"He was one of four men, including his son John Colin Spiby, who police said were part of an organised crime gang producing drugs on an industrial scale and supplying firearms. John Eric Spiby denied any knowledge of the conspiracy but after a trial at Bolton Crown Court he was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to produce class C drugs and conspiracy to supply class C drugs."
John Eric Spiby, aged 80, won £2.4m on the national lottery in 2010 and led a drugs operation valued at up to £288m operating from his rural home near Wigan. The group manufactured counterfeit diazepam tablets on an industrial scale, flooding the region with millions of pills. Spiby provided and adapted premises and purchased machinery worth thousands of pounds to produce the tablets. He was one of four men involved, including his son, and the gang also supplied firearms. Spiby was convicted of drug and firearms offences, possession of ammunition, perverting the course of justice, and jailed for 16 years and six months.
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