A prisoner who escaped jail more than 20 years ago is back behind bars after police carried out a raid on a drug factory he ran.
Barry Doughty, 57, broke out of jail in 1999 only weeks after being imprisoned for drug dealing.
He was finally caught and thrown back in jail in July 2019 when police carried out a raid on a property in Dover, Kent, having received intelligence suggesting it was being used to produce drugs.
Doughty, who initially gave cops the fake name “Gary Monk”, admitted breaking out of prison as well as the supply of Class C drugs.
He has been jailed for six years at Canterbury crown court.
Police who searched the property found a large amount of materials which had been used in the production of the steroids testosterone, trenbolone, boldenone, drostanolone and mesthasterone.
More than 100 vials of the drugs were discovered, police said, and documents showed others like them had been sent to addresses in the UK, USA and Ireland.
It was believed that the operation at the property had been running since 2017 and had generated at least £80,000 for those involved.
Further enquiries led to the identification of others involved and George Higgins was arrested by police later the same month at his home in Worthington Street, Dover.
Officers located a further 300 vials of drugs in bags at his property.
Samuel Winwright, who helped launder some of the money made from the sale of the drugs, was arrested at his home in Colorado Close, Dover in October 2019.
At the same sentencing hearing, Higgins was jailed for three years.
Winwright was given an 18-month suspended sentence.
Both had admitted being concerned in the supply of class C drugs at previous hearings.
