Robert Dawes worked with Colombian and Italian gangsters to smuggle cocaine into the UK, the special court, composed only of judges, was told. Mr Dawes, 46, who is originally from Nottinghamshire ...

Nottinghamshire-born Robert Dawes arranged for Gerard Meesters, 52, to be shot dead at his home in Groningen in 2002 over suspicions his estranged sister had hidden money or drugs. Dawes ...

Prosecutors in the Netherlands said Daniel Sowerby, who was jailed for life in 2006 for shooting Mr Meesters, had done so on the orders of Sutton-in-Ashfield drug lord Robert Dawes. Dawes has been ...