In court documents seen by the BBC, prosecutor Sam Ponniah told jurors police found messages between the defendant and Christopher and Jonathan McAllister – who were jailed in 2022 for importing Class A drugs – after authorities infiltrated Encrochat servers in 2019.<\/p>\n
The messages were exchanged between March and May of 2020 and revealed Bulcroft to be part of a conspiracy to supply cocaine, he said.<\/p>\n
“There are conversations where Yummycub speaks to the McAllisters, or an associate of them, and is enquiring about buying kilos of cocaine at around \u00a338,000 a go,” Mr Poniah told the court.<\/p>\n
“Naturally the police wanted to work out who Yummycub was because clearly they were involved in buying significant amounts of drugs directly from importers.”<\/p>\n
Bulcroft, who once shared the ring with Amir Khan, was also referred to as ‘The Boxer’ by the McAllisters, the court heard.<\/p>\n
He asked one of them to meet him at “the gym” which shared the same postcode as his former boxing gym in Denaby Main, as well as “my house”, a location which matched his then home address.<\/p>\n
He also replied “Thank You” to a happy birthday message on 10 May 2020 – the date of his birthday – which Mr Poniah said made it “crystal clear” he was Yummycub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In court documents seen by the BBC, prosecutor Sam Ponniah told jurors police found messages between the defendant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114697835881643431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}