AN up-and-coming boxer from Ipswich is today waiting to learn his fate after admitting his part in a major drugs ring.

Part of an organised gang ferrying consignments of drugs worth hundreds of thousands of pounds from Liverpool to Suffolk in a nine-month period from September 21, 2010 to June 7, 2011, was Henry Bacon, of Woodlands Way, Ipswich.

The 26-year-old super-middleweight pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A drugs, along with eight others.

Caroline Murphy, 22, of Mercer Drive, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to conceal, disguise, convert, transfer and remove criminal property. Michael Kynaston, 30, of Edgerton Road in Lowestoft, Johnathan McKenna, 25, of Norwich Road, Norwich, Andrew Roberts, 30, of Keats Avenue, Wigan, Wesley Gale, 27, of Belle Green Lane in Wigan and Stephen Palmer, 44, of Wisset Way, Lowestoft all admitted conspiring to supply Class A drugs.

Steven Jackson, 45, of Old Nelson Street, Lowestoft, pleaded guilty to two counts of supplying controlled drug of Class B and two counts of possession with intent to supply a Class B drug. Marie Darwin, 50, of Melverley Road in Liverpool pleaded guilty to permitting premises to be used for supplying Class A drugs.

Officers from Suffolk police worked with their counterparts on Merseyside to break-up the supply chain. Premises in north Suffolk were allegedly used for the cutting and packaging of the drugs. A garage in Lowestoft rented by McKenna and Kynaston was one, there was another unit in Beccles and a rented property in Wrentham.

Large industrial presses were recovered from the garage which had traces of cocaine and mixing agents on them.

Although the garage did dabble in cars, it was rented as a front for the drug business.

A courier would bring the drugs down to Suffolk, where they would be broken up, pressed again to reflect importation quality and to maximise the profits, by splitting the cocaine up before distribution.

McKenna was the drug’s ring’s top dog with his lieutenants Kynaston – well known in the criminal fraternity in Lowestoft, and Jackson.