{"id":401211,"date":"2025-09-05T23:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401211\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:37:15","slug":"boxing-coach-stefy-bull-jailed-for-conspiracy-to-supply-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401211\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing coach Stefy Bull jailed for conspiracy to supply cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve JonesBBC News, Yorkshire<\/p>\n

\"BBCBBC<\/p>\n

Stefy Bull has worked with some of the biggest names in British boxing<\/p>\n

A world champion boxing trainer and manager has been jailed for 10 years for his part in a conspiracy to supply cocaine.<\/p>\n

Andrew Bulcroft, known as Stefy Bull, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court earlier after being found guilty following a trial in February.<\/p>\n

Co-defendant Benjamin Williams was also jailed for 10 years for the same offence, but given a 15% reduction on his sentence due to his guilty plea before trial.<\/p>\n

Judge Peter Hampton said both men had been “motivated by financial greed”.<\/p>\n

A former professional boxer turned trainer, manager and promoter, Bull’s stable had included champions at British, European and world level.<\/p>\n

He helped guide the career of three-weight female world champion Terri Harper, as well as several other Doncaster-based fighters, who have competed at international level.<\/p>\n

They include Jamie McDonnell, Maxi Hughes and Jason Cunningham.<\/p>\n

Bulcroft, of Crane Moore Close in Harlington, denied the charge against him but a jury delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after the four-day trial.<\/p>\n

‘Scant mitigation’<\/p>\n

Judge Hampton said Bulcroft had since admitted his guilt and spoken of his “remorse”.<\/p>\n

He told him: “The reality is you chanced your arm at trial, just as you chanced your arm at offending.”<\/p>\n

Judge Hampton said Bulcroft had “often played for high stakes” in his boxing career and had done the same in the drugs world.<\/p>\n

He said he accepted the 48-year-old had “changed lives in a positive way” through boxing – <\/b>and revealed he had been “making constructive use” of his time on remand – <\/b>but told Bulcroft he had otherwise “utterly betrayed” his previous good work.<\/p>\n

“You seek to blame your offending upon your financial circumstances at the time of the coronavirus lockdown period. I’m afraid, in my judgement, that’s scant mitigation.<\/p>\n

“You and Mr Williams only have yourselves to blame.”<\/p>\n

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Bulcroft had been responsible for helping to guide the careers of a number of well-known boxers, including Terri Harper<\/p>\n

The court heard Bulcroft and Williams, 42, used the Encrochat encrypted phone network buy the drugs.<\/p>\n

Judge Hampton said the pair were the “middle men” and purchased the drugs wholesale from Christopher and Jonathan McAllister – who were jailed in 2022 for importing Class A drugs – before supplying them to be sold in South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

Bulcroft was said to have used Encrochat, <\/b>an encrypted phone network, <\/b>to communicate with an individual from Spain yet to be identified, who had advised him of the process of buying kilos of cocaine priced between \u00a334,000 and \u00a337,000.<\/p>\n

Judge Hampton said he had “retailed” about 5kg of the drug, “no doubt to significant financial profit”.<\/p>\n

Williams sold between two and three kilos of cocaine, the judge added. <\/p>\n

Officers found \u00a384,000 in cash stashed inside a safe in a fortified outbuilding when they arrested Williams, 43, at his house on Church Street in Mexborough in June 2020, as well as \u00a39,500 of cocaine and \u00a3105 of cannabis.<\/p>\n

\"SouthSouth Yorkshire Police<\/p>\n

Bulcroft, left, and Williams were both jailed at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday<\/p>\n

Both men initially denied any wrongdoing during police interviews.<\/p>\n

Judge Hampton said the pair thought they were “untouchable” through their use of Encrochat, adding: “The fact you are here now for your sentence shows that you got that very badly wrong”.<\/p>\n

Williams was also sentenced to five years and five months in prison for possessing cocaine with intent to supply.<\/p>\n

He was given a sentence of two years and six months for possessing cannabis with intent to supply and a further sentence of two years and one month for possessing criminal property.<\/p>\n

All of the sentences will be served concurrently.<\/p>\n

Both men, who appeared in court via video link from HMP Doncaster, were told they would serve up to 40% of their sentences in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve JonesBBC News, Yorkshire BBC Stefy Bull has worked with some of the biggest names in British boxing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-401211","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\/115154324507128742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401211","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=401211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}